Deploying Multi-Server Farms

As a deminstration, I'm attempting to deploy a three server farm in a virtual domain.  I'd like to include as many technical complexities as possible so I don't simply want two WFEs and a DB.  What I want is a dedicated WFE and a dedicated IndexApp server that will handle everything EXCEPT the content web application.

So, I'm seeing some of this stuff for the first time.  And the way I looked at it, there's a couple of discreet steps to the whole process:

  1. Do a ton of pre-installation steps like creating your service accounts, installing IIS, .Net and getting your DB server running. 
  2. Run the SharePoint setup.exe on all your farm servers; the db server does not actually need SharePoint.
  3. Run the configuration wizard on each of the SharePoint servers.
  4. Perform the adminsitrative tasks that configure the MOSS applications.

Now, we've covered the install pretty good as far as the pre-install steps are concerned.

But the setup.exe program provides us with our first chance to screw something up.  During the setup routine, we can decide on a WFE or a Complete install.  You can also select Stand Alone but that's the SQLExpress solution that's not really relevant to our purpose.

I seems like I want one WFE server and one Complete server.

 


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