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I am currently looking into the Sharepoint for my Organisation, I have been playing with the simple "1 server" production setup for a few weeks now and i have decided to go ahead create a farm

In my test Environment I have several physical servers ready to be formatted and reinstalled, the problem that I have found is that im not entirely sure of the best way to do this:

I have 3 servers currently, one of witch is a basic production Domain Controller, I have another 4 Servers at my beck and call for when I need them.

So what im asking is what should I do with them, My initial thoughts was:

  • Domain Controller.
  • Web Server.
  • Database Server.
  • Services Server*.

or just tie in the Service Server with the Web Server for development purposes.

Any help on this would be great.

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Please add more information about what kind of services you will use, the number of users, estimated size of data. There is no silver-bullet install type. – Wictor Wilen MCA MCM MVP Feb 14 '11 at 16:36

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Massively depends on the specs of the servers? Are these all physical boxes or VM's? I assume you mean physical boxes, but it still very much depends. You can have a small farm with 1 DC and the other machine as the WFE/SP server/DB server if it's in dev but again depends on scale and specs.

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Robert,i think your initial thoughts will be good. As you are planning for seperate server for database,Domain Controller and Web ,it will decrease the network traffic. but again as Ross said it depends on scale. but if u are creating this farm for testing u can have web and database on same server.

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