It’s very important to follow best practice installation for SharePoint Farm specially for staging and production environments. Most of the time we learn things with self-experience and follow the basic installation instructions. You can install SharePoint with basic/default settings for Dev environments or for single server installation but need to follow the best practices when need to do a multi farm deployment.

SharePoint Server 2016 made the life easier by giving the MinRole/Server Role option where you can easily define the Application servers and web front end servers which was not easy in earlier versions of SharePoint.

I have written series of blog post covering different topics for installation of a SharePoint 2016 Farm which include the best practices on  farm user accounts, SQL Server, SharePoint and configuration of service applications. I have taken example of a three-server(3-tier) farm which can be easily extended by following the same steps. The three servers are:

  • SQL Database Server
  • SharePoint Application Server
  • SharePoint Web Front End Server

SharePoint 2016 3 Tier Farm

No. of Servers totally depend on the usage requirement for an organization, I will share the detail on architecture design in a separate email.

Now, you need the follow below links for deploying SharePoint in a 3-tier farm or can extend the servers by simply following below links:

Above links will help you to do deploy SharePoint in multi-server environment.

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