There is so much unnecessary confusion over server roles in SharePoint. SharePoint roles are really a description of what services are running on the server, and because of the past we’ve overcomplicated the way we think about servers roles, app servers, tiers, topologies, and farms.
In this post Joel Oleson takes the opportunity to simplify these roles, so you can see it is much much simpler than it is made out to be or even that original design.
Tags: Infrastructure
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