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Is there a SharePoint setup guide for beginners?

I want to set up SharePoint for the following:

Total company size 200.
Want to use the site for the
Intranet Internal departments use the Intranet as a way to provide an online Read-Only archive between departments.
Extranet Remote and local employees go here for the following:
Benefits documents
Corporate briefings
Where to find downloadable (approved templates)
Collaborative Team sites
Internet For the rest of the world

We will be hosting all of it and will be using 1and1 for the domain/public DNS hosting. Is there an straight forward setup guide for this?

John Achille

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And should I go with 2016 over 2013? I've heard 2016 is cloud based completely.

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Walter Curtis

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Walter Curtis

Any luck?

John Achille

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can I run server 2012 in an 2008 domain environment?

Walter Curtis

Yes

John Achille

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Doing default install to 1 Windows 2012/SharePoint 2016/SQL>>server/Ent (downloading iso's now)
Current SharePoint 2007 portal used as a file store. No specific coding/branding.
Need to copy structure and data over?

Walter Curtis

There is no out of the box to process to "copy structure and data over". Depending upon the amount of data, there may be efficient to do this. But that's a different questions. Your best bet is to close this original questions and open a new question with "Migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2016" in the title and you will get more exposure.

Thanks

John Achille

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I have the time to learn but for production purposes I need to deploy sooner rather than later. here on EE there is an option to setup for projects for pay, like this. How does that work?

John Achille

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there is no direct migration path from 2007 - 2016

Walter Curtis

That's correct. There is not direct migration path between the two. However, if you are just dealing with documents you may not need to do a full migration.

I do not know how the projects for pay works on this site. There is information about on the site, with links a lot of places so I am sure someone could help out. (btw. I am not currently doing external projects.)

Good luck...

John Achille

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You said:

"However, if you are just dealing with documents you may not need to do a full migration. "

Please explain.

Walter Curtis

If you just have a few hundred documents in just a few document libraries and maintain metadata is not a concern, you could move the documents over with Windows Explorer for example.

John Achille

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I think thats what Im going to do. I have absolutely no experience w/anything 2016. so totally freaked out about deploying everything 2016. did the 2016 datacenter desktop experience. Just finishing updates before installing sql2016 (ugh)

Walter Curtis

Good luck.. it's not too bad, nothing to be worried about.

John Achille

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ok 2016 is not that supported and I have scrapped everything 2016 for:

SP2013/SQL 2014/WinSvr Datacenter 2012

Became concerned about support & resources. Thank you advice and moving forward.

Walter Curtis

Thanks, good luck.

John Achille

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can SharePoint 2013 be installed on 2012 server? nevermind its a resounding yes.

Walter Curtis

Yes, as you said.