Contents
- 1 How many server farms are there in SharePoint?
- 2 Can you install a SharePoint update without a test farm?
- 3 How do I install SharePoint 2010 as an administrator?
- 4 Can you have more than one SharePoint Server?
- 5 What happens when you shut down a SharePoint Server?
- 6 Which is the correct order of server shutdown and restart?
We have a SharePoint 2010 Server farm with 2 WFEs and 2 APP Servers. Can you please suggest on the order of shutdown and the order of restart of the servers?
You NEVER install any update (Windows, CU, PU, SP, etc..) in any SharePoint Environment without testing it in a Test Farm. You have been warned!
Is there a Service Pack 2 for SharePoint?
Unless you were on vacation for the past three weeks, by now you know that SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2 is out and ready to be installed! If you’re looking for the announcement, or download links, check out this post: SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2 Released .
On any one of the SharePoint servers, start and run the “SharePoint 2010 Configuration Wizard” as an administrator. In the Configuration Wizard, it may ask you if you want to change anything. At this time, do not change anything, simply click next, next, and next.
From your question I understand that you need two application servers, one would have all the SharePoint Services except Search Service. The other application server would be your Search Server that only runs Search Service. Yes you can have a multiple servers configured in a single farm.
How many WFEs in a 10 server farm?
10 server farm with 5 WFEs with F5 load balancer. We want to disable RM on a single WFE to make it a dedicated crawl target.
In SharePoint 2013, you want to be careful when shutting the servers that are running Distributed Caching. “The Distributed Cache service will become unstable, if you start/stop the Distributed Cache service in an unplanned manner.” (reference: technet)
Which is the correct order of server shutdown and restart?
If you have the usual setup of the 2 APP servers serving as their own local WFEs then I’d always stop the 2 WFE first and then the 2 APP servers and then start them in reverse order. I don’t think it is that important.