Questions tagged [minrole]
For questions about the new farm topology and machine roles introduced in SharePoint Server 2016.
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Create a SharePoint 2019 Application Server and join an existing Farm?
What is the best practice to create a SharePoint 2019 Application Server and join an existing Farm?
2x Application Minrole Servers require a rebuild due to a corruption within the OS.
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SharePoint 2016 Small HA MinRole Farm Disk Requirements
I'm wanting to deploy a new SharePoint 2016 Small High Availability MinRole Farm to house and manage 2,000+ SSRS reports:
Four servers with two shared roles:
Two Front-end with Distributed Cache ...
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SP2019 - Load Balancing
I have SP2019 set up in MinRole topology ( x2 App w/search and x2 Web w/ DistCache ).
What's the best way to load balance ? I am thinking of using the standard Windows Server NLB feature.
Do I only ...
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SP2019 Server - MinRole - DistCache Complaining about memory usage on wrong server
My newly deployed SP2019 environment set up in MinRole topology (x2 App w/ Search and x2 Web w/ DistCache) is complaining about high / not enough memory for DistCache service on the wrong server.
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Shared Roles not appearing while joining a new server to an existing farm 2016.?
We had created a SharePoint 2016 farm using Minrole, before the release of Feature Pack 1. This farm contains 4 servers - one WebFrontEnd, Application, distributed cache and search server. For High ...
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What is "Role Conversion" actually do on SharePoint 2016 on-premise?
We have a SP2016 (16.0.4327.1000 build, Release candidate) installed. I checked there is no Distrubuted Cache service setup. So I set it up on 2 WFE server. After that I change the role of WFE servers ...
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Recommended Distributed Cache size for WFE + DC minrole
What formula do you use for allocating memory to a WFE with Distributed Cache?
MS recommends half of 10% which is too small:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/administration/manage-the-...
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Activate command disabled in Solutions Gallery
Scenario: SharePoint 2016 MinRole Farm with 2 Servers.
I tried starting Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service in one and in both servers as I found this: Can't Activate Solution ...
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Relocate Pagefile.sys to address availability error "Drives are running out of free space"
Scenario: Production environment, SharePoint 2016 MinRole Farm, 1 Application with Search Server and 1 Front-End with Distributed Cache. On App server, getting Availability Error
"Available drive ...
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SharePoint 2016 - Event ID 8313 - A failure was reported when trying to invoke a service application: EndpointFailure
This is in a SharePoint 2016 MinRole Farm (1 Front-End with Dist Cache and 1 Application with Search).
On WFE server I see Error on Event Viewer from 5 AM to 6 PM hourly:
Event ID 8313 User: DOMAIN\...
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Min role for SharePoint farm
I am trying to build a new SP 2016 farm, I am confused which min role should I choose?
I just need to configure search and user sync service !
My initial thinking is
front end with distributed ...
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Deploy a SharePoint solution (WSP) to a SharePoint 2016 MinRole Server with decicated "Search" role
Apparently it is not possible to deploy a "classic" SharePoint solution (WSP) to a SharePoint 2016 MinRole server which is running a dedicated search role.
Most likely this is caused by the fact that ...
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I have 2 WFE and 2 APP and DB in Cluster
I have 2 WFE and 2 APP and DB in Cluster.When I create web application in all the servers web application and application pool gets created?
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Impact of Changing Server role on underlying applications
I feel a need to change server role from Front-end to Application. Would it have any impact on underlying running Applications?
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SharePoint MinRole - IIS Server AppPools
I have just installed a new SharePoint 2016 environment using MinRoles like this.
[WebFronEnd & Cache]
[Application & Search]
[Database]
I have now created the very first web applications ...
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SharePoint 2016 MinRole and 3rd Party Service Applications
I have a 3rd party solution, which wants to add a custom Service-Application to my MinRole-Deployed SharePoint 2016 farm.
Will MinRole accept a 3rd party SA without setting the server in a non-...
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Minrole topology - Web Front End server with Distributed Cache services
If configuring WFE server with Distributed Cache, during installation would this server have to be installed as a custom role?
Or the Distributed Cache service can be added later after installing a ...
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Can i change to mulitiple server farm from single server farm in sharepoint 2016
Hi i deployed a sharepoint 2016 single server farm in a windows server 2016 server and after can i change this farm to multiple server farm ? to add front end server role?
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Installing SharePoint Server 2016 on a two-tier server farm
I am planning to install SharePoint Server 2016 on a two-tier server farm consisting of an Application Server and Database Server. While running the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, at the '...
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SharePoint 2016 Custom Server Role
I'm considering adding a custom server role to our 2016 farm plan. I notice though that the TechNet article describing services on the different MinRoles states that the custom server role has the ...
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SharePoint 2016 on premise - Post Security Trimming not working
Has anyone got Post Security Trimming working in SharePoint 2016? We are moving from a 2013 Farm where the code I'm using worked just fine, in 2016 the trimmer just seems to get totally ignored.
It ...
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custom role and front end with distributed cache
i am using custom role with performance point service and the farm working but when i checked
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt667910(v=office.16).aspx and custom role not refer to ...
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SP 2016 with March CU stating Application with Search is not compliant
The minrole feature is supposedly supported, but is not reflecting such.
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SharePoint 2016 Ent. MinRole High Availability?
deploying SharePoint 2016 with the new MinRole feature-set in HA Scenario, 4 servers in total - not including the SQL server.
I'm new to SP HA. Do i just install and configure each server and add to ...
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Which min role to install first?
I'll be installing min roles on 4 servers (probably more in the future). Does it matter which min role I install first?
I found description of the roles, I found some info about their management, and ...
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SharePoint 2016 - missing server dependencies OOTB
I have a freshly built 2016 Standard Server Farm using autospinstaller in a 4 server farm using MinRoles. The main web application and the my site web application are both reporting missing server ...
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SharePoint 2016 - min role advice
We are installing SP2016 for the first time and need some advice about min roles. Its going to be a 2 server farm, I want them to be exactly the same. When going though the setup phase, which min role ...
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MinRole Topologies
What are MinRole topologies and what is the best practice to configure topologies in SharePoint 2016? What are the differences between front end servers and Distributed Cache servers?
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