{"id":479,"date":"2020-06-03T18:35:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T10:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=479"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:58:57","slug":"minimum-space-requirement-for-windows-2012","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/minimum-space-requirement-for-windows-2012","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Space Requirement for Windows 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Minimum Space Requirement for Windows 2012<\/h4>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/jj134246.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft<\/a>, the minimum disk requirement for a successful install of Windows 2012 is 32 GB.<br \/>\nHowever, to cater to Windows Updates and other applications ( e.g. email, website ) which you may use. It is recommended that at least 50 GB of disk space be set aside for your cloud server.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Please refer to the following article to know more.<br \/>\nKnowledge Base: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/editing-windows-updates-in-windows-server-2012\">Editing Windows Updates in Windows Server 2012<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minimum Space Requirement for Windows 2012 According to\u00a0Microsoft, the minimum disk requirement for a successful install of Windows 2012 is 32 GB. However, to cater to Windows Updates and other applications ( e.g. email, website ) which you may use. It is recommended that at least 50 GB of disk space be set aside for your cloud server. &nbsp; Please&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[17],"kbtag":[],"class_list":["post-479","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cloud-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5794,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/479\/revisions\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}