Contents
- 1 Can a SharePoint farm consume SharePoint 2010 services?
- 2 How to exchange trust certificates between farms in SharePoint?
- 3 How to publish service applications in SharePoint Server?
- 4 How are service applications shared in SharePoint Server?
- 5 Which is the upgrade application for SharePoint Server 2010?
- 6 How can social features work across content farms?
For example, SharePoint 2013 cannot consume services from SharePoint 2019 as well as SharePoint 2010 cannot consume services from SharePoint 2016. Important: There are significant restrictions on when services and content can be shared between a SharePoint 2010 farm and a SharePoint 2013 farm.
These steps must be performed in the order listed. Exchange trust certificates between the farms. To start, an administrator of the consuming farm must provide two trust certificates to the administrator of the publishing farm: a root certificate and a security token service (STS) certificate.
Which is the farm that contains the service application?
The farm that contains the service application and publishes the service application so that other farms can consume the service application is known as the publishing farm. The farm that connects to a remote location to use a service application that the remote location is hosting is known as the consuming farm.
You can publish the following service applications in a SharePoint Server farm: 1 Business Data Connectivity 2 Machine Translation 3 Managed Metadata 4 User Profile 5 Search 6 Secure Store
In SharePoint Server, some service applications can be shared across server farms. By publishing a service application, you can optimize resources, avoid redundancy, and provide enterprise-wide services without installing a dedicated enterprise services farm. You can publish the following service applications in a SharePoint Server farm:
Can you share a service application across farms?
For more information, see Connect to service applications on remote farms in SharePoint Server. You cannot share a User Profile service application across farms that reside in separate domains unless you first establish a domain-level trust between the two domains.
The Business Data Connectivity service application is available for upgrade both from SharePoint Foundation 2010 to SharePoint Foundation 2013 and SharePoint Server 2010 to SharePoint 2013. The other service applications are available for upgrade only from SharePoint Server 2010 to SharePoint 2013.
For social features to work across content farms, you must create a My Site Host on each content farm in the datacenter. In this design, the My Site Host on the designated My Site farm, where the User Profile Service application exists, is the primary My Site Host.
How does a Cross Farm Service application work?
For the Business Data Connectivity service and Secure Store service application administration features to work from the consuming farm, the domain of the publishing farm must trust the domain of the consuming farm. Other cross-farm service applications work without a trust requirement between domains.