Wednesday, August 26, 2015

SharePoint 2016 - Server Role Configuration simplified


New Hybrid feature configuration on every site collection in SharePoint 2016.




One remarkable change in the SharePoint 2016 installation method from its predecessor is , now SharePoint 2016 installation allows you to choose the server role on the SharePoint farm.

Earlier version, you have to do manually , I mean you need to come up with capacity plan and design plan before elevating the SharePoint server for each role.

Configuring the DSN, Alternate Access Map , identifying the service application to scale out to different server , really its hectic process for SharePoint Farm admin.

Now SharePoint 2016, simplified this during  installation.
SharePoint 2016 Server Roles are

Front End
Application
Distribute Cache
Search
Custom

and the Single Server Farm.