Scaling Out Windows SharePoint Services
There are far fewer concrete rules when creating a server farm topology than there were in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. As you progress through the next few sections, make design notes on the nuances of each individual service and how those will affect your design.
Adding Web Front-End Servers
When creating a Web application, you are actually creating an entry in the configuration database with Internet Information Services (IIS) information, a corresponding IIS virtual server, and a content database that will host the site collections within that Web application. However, assigned IP addresses, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates, and multiple host header entries are ...
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