Flashcards in SharePoint Server Concepts and Fundamentals Deck (9)
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What is a SharePoint Farm
A SharePoint Farm is a collection of servers that work together to provide a set of basic enterprise and web content management services.
It's a combining of services that make up the SharePoint Farm, like Documents/Files, Folders, Business Intelligence, Structured Data, Search, Tagging, Websites..Sets of services, components, features tied together.
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Why Install a SharePoint Farm
Firstly, if you have a single server then it's a single failure. There's a single point of failure for performance and scalability.
More servers then you get distributed protection.
Scalability - ability to scale to meet the needs of content and data.
Resilience - Recover from failure at any level.
Performance - Increase performance for end-user requests and internal services.
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What are the SharePoint Farm Types ?
Standard Servers Roles -
Dedicated Server Roles
Shared Roles
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SharePoint 2013 Server Roles
Web Server
Application Server
Search Server
Database Server
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SharePoint 2016/2019 Dedicated Server Roles
Front--End Server
Application Server
Distributed Cache Server
Search Server
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SharePoint 2016/2019 Shared Server Roles
Front-end with Distributed Cache - shared role that combines the Front-end and Distributed Cache roles on the same server.
Application with Search - Shared role that combines the Application and Search roles on the same server.
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What is SharePoint MinRole ?
- is a SharePoint 2016 and higher option.
- uses predefined server roles
- set the roles at the server creation
- required services are automatically configured based on defined role, nothing else gets added over and above what has been specified in the product for the specific role.
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Benefits of SharePoint 2016/2019 MinRole ?
- Simple and repeatable deployments (can easily script out process)
- Improved performance and reliability
- Better capacity planning and farm scalability.
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