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:
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Do a ton of pre-installation steps like creating your service accounts, installing IIS, .Net and getting your DB server running.
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Run the SharePoint setup.exe on all your farm servers; the db server does not actually need SharePoint.
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Run the configuration wizard on each of the SharePoint servers.
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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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