Deploying SharePoint Server Farms

You can choose from a multitude of farm deployment scenarios to include as part of your design. In this section, you’ll become familiar with some of the more common scenarios and presented with a roadmap for deploying SharePoint Server 2007. The classifications given here to these farm topologies is rather arbitrary; none of the topologies are enforced in the user interface. You can craft any combination of server you want in a SharePoint Server 2007 farm. These classifications are for discussion purposes only, and you can use them as starting points for planning the right topology for your environment.

Single-Server Deployment

In a single-server deployment scenario (shown in Figure 3-7), a single server services ...

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