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About deploying SharePoint Portal Server

Applies to: Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003

You can install Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 on one or more servers to provide a scalable, customized solution for your organization. SharePoint Portal Server is flexible, offering a variety of deployment configuration options. The configuration you choose depends on a number of factors, including your hardware and your performance, expansion, and scalability needs.

Show Single-server configurations

There are two single-server configurations you can use — standalone or single server with Microsoft SQL Server. Both configurations use one computer to run the Web component, index component, and search component. The difference is that the standalone configuration does not have SQL Server 2000 installed.

Show Server farm configurations

A server farm is a centralized grouping of network servers that provide a network with load balancing, scalability, and fault tolerance. Individual servers can be connected in such a way that they appear to represent a single resource. A server farm allows you to provide the best combination of performance and reliability for your deployment.

SharePoint Portal Server enables you to choose from three configurations: small server farm, medium server farm, and large server farm.

The following image shows a typical large server farm deployment.

Large farm deployment configuration

To consolidate resources, you can customize your SharePoint Portal Server deployment to share services across multiple server farms. Shared services consolidates the common services of search, indexing, alerts, and user profile management onto a parent portal. The services are centrally managed from a single server for two or more server farms. The child portals in the organization can then provide content based on division or application without using up resources on the technical details of import and crawl. Only large server farms can provide shared services, which can then be used by any of these configurations: single server with SQL Server, small server farm, or child farm.

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