System Requirements

This section lists the system requirements for installing and working with SharePoint Manager Plus.

• Hardware requirements
• Software requirements
• General recommendations
• Port requirements

Hardware requirements

Hardware	Minimum	Recommended
Processor speed	2.1GHz or faster	3GHz or faster
Processor cores	6	12
RAM	10GB	20GB
Disk type	SSD	SSD
Disk space	35GB	110GB
Network card capacity	1GB/s	1GB/s
CPU architecture	64-bit	64-bit

Note: The values mentioned in the table are approximate, as numerous factors influence the performance of the application such as the number of site collections or the cumulative number of objects present in the environment. We recommend you create a test environment similar to the production environment with the setup details mentioned in the table. Based on the performance, the system requirements can be modified to fit your environment.

Software requirements

Supported operating systems

SharePoint Manager Plus can be installed in machines running the following operating systems and versions:

Supported SharePoint platforms

ManageEngine SharePoint Manager Plus can manage and audit both online and on-premises SharePoint farms. The solution supports the following SharePoint versions:

• Microsoft SharePoint 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and Subscription Edition
• SharePoint Online

Supported web browsers

SharePoint Manager Plus has been tested to support the following browsers and versions with at least a 1024x768 display resolution.

Supported databases

SharePoint Manager Plus can use the following databases as its backend database.

• PostgreSQL
• MS SQL

.NET and PowerShell requirements

SharePoint Manager Plus requires Microsoft .Net Framework version 4.8 and PowerShell version 5.1 to be installed in the system.

1. To check if Microsoft .NET Framework is installed, open PowerShell as an administrator and enter the following command:

   (Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full").Version

   Check the displayed version. If the version is less than 4.8, install Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 from here.
2. To check the version of PowerShell, open PowerShell and run the following command:

   $PSVersionTable

   If the version is below 5 or if PowerShell is not installed, install PowerShell version 5.1 from here.

General recommendations

VM infrastructure

• Allocate 100% of the RAM and CPU to the virtual machine running SharePoint Manager Plus. Sharing memory and processing power with other virtual machines on the same host may result in RAM or CPU starvation and may negatively impact SharePoint Manager Plus' performance.

CPU and RAM

• Server CPU utilization should be maintained below 85% to ensure better performance.
• Fifty percent of server RAM should be kept free for off-heap utilization of Elasticsearch for optimal performance.

Disk

• Disk latency greatly affects the performance of SharePoint Manager Plus. Direct-attached storage (DAS) on par with an SSD with near-zero latency and high throughput is recommended.

Installation server

• SharePoint Manager Plus uses Elasticsearch to store list and list item data as well as IIS logs of SharePoint servers. The Elasticsearch process utilizes off-heap memory for better performance.

Port requirements

Server ports

Port number	Protocol	Purpose
8085/8086	HTTP/HTTPS	To connect to the Tomcat web server
33315	TCP	To connect to the product database
9300–9400	TCP	To connect to the Elasticsearch database

System ports

Allow outbound connections to ports on the source server (SharePoint Manager Plus server) and inbound connections to ports on the target servers (i.e., the SharePoint server).

Port number	Protocol	Source	Destination	Port type	Service	Purpose
5985/ 5986	HTTP/HTTPS	SharePoint Manager Plus server	SharePoint server	Static	PowerShell	To establish a connection to SharePoint server using remote PowerShell
80 and 443	HTTP/HTTPS	SharePoint Manager Plus server	Microsoft 365	Static	Microsoft 365	Required for communicating with Microsoft 365
389 and 636	TCP and UDP	SharePoint Manager Plus server	Domain controllers	Static	LDAP	To connect to Active Directory
445	TCP and UDP	SharePoint Manager Plus server	IIS server	Static	Server Message Block (SMB)	To collect IIS logs data
25	SMTP	SharePoint Manager Plus server	SMTP server	Static	SMTP	To send emails

Endpoint settings

The following endpoints must be allowed by the firewall for the seamless functioning of the tool.

Azure AD general cloud

Azure general cloud users must ensure that the following domains are allowed by their firewalls. Azure Germany, China, and US cloud users can refer to the respective tables.

Module	Endpoint
REST API	login.microsoftonline.com
	graph.windows.net
	graph.microsoft.com
	manage.office.com
	portal.office.com
	login.windows.net/common/oauth2/token
	admin.microsoft.com/fd/CommerceAPI/my-org
Exchange Online	outlook.office.com
	outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid

Azure Germany

Azure Germany cloud users must ensure that the following domains are allowed by their firewalls.

Module	Endpoint
REST API	login.microsoftonline.de
	graph.cloudapi.de
	graph.microsoft.de
	manage.office.de
Exchange Online	outlook.office.de
	outlook.office.de/powershell-liveid

Azure China

Azure China cloud users must ensure that the following domains are allowed by their firewalls.

Module	Endpoint
REST API	login.partner.microsoftonline.cn
	graph.chinacloudapi.cn
	manage.office.cn
	portal.azure.cn
	login.partner.microsoftonline.cn/common/oauth2/token
Exchange Online	partner.outlook.cn
	partner.outlook.cn/PowerShell

Azure US

Azure US cloud users must ensure that the following domains are allowed by their firewalls.

Module	Endpoint
REST API	login.microsoftonline.us
	graph.windows.net
	graph.microsoft.us
	manage.office.us
	portal.azure.us
	login.microsoftonline.us/common/oauth2/token
Exchange Online	outlook.office365.us
	outlook.office365.us/powershell-liveid

General domains

The general domains that must be allowed through the firewall are as follows:

Domains	URLs	Purpose
*.zoho.com	creator.zoho.com	To install security patches and send product and health metrics periodically
	salesiq.zoho.com	Used for the Live Chat feature in the Support tab
	livedesk.zoho.com
manageengine.com	https://pitstop.manageengine.com	Used to display recent forum posts and announcements in the Support tab
	https://identitymanager.manageengine.in	Communicate with Microsoft Graph API for Tenant Configuration.
*.zohocorp.com	uploads.zohocorp.com	To download patch files, if any
	https://bonitas.zohocorp.com/	To upload log files