Updated: 2009-04-23

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides the flexibility to meet many different deployment solution goals. This chapter includes guidance that can help you:

• Determine the number of server farms required to meet your solution goals.

• Plan for the relationships between server farms.

• Plan for Internet-facing server farms.

• Design server-farm topologies to meet availability goals.

In this chapter:

• Plan for server farms describes criteria that can be used to determine if multiple server farms are required, including licensing requirements.

• Design extranet farm topology (Office SharePoint Server) describes the supported topologies for deploying a Office SharePoint Server 2007 server farm in an Internet-facing environment.

• Design content deployment topology describes elements of topologies designed for content deployment and illustrates typical content deployment topologies.

• Design records management topology describes criteria that can be used to determine if multiple server farms are required to host Records Center sites and illustrates a typical records management topology.

• Design document conversions topology describes topology requirements and tuning guidance for deploying document converters on a server farm.

• Plan for redundancy (Office SharePoint Server) describes the availability options for the server roles included in a Office SharePoint Server server farm.

• Downloadable book: Planning an Extranet Environment for Office SharePoint Server covers planning recommendations for deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 in an extranet environment.

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