Scenarios

Building farm topologies really isn’t an exact science, whether they are intranet solutions, extranet solutions, Internet solutions, or some combination thereof. It greatly depends on the infrastructure you already have in place. It depends on your firewalls, routers, switches, Active Directory, SQL Server, and—to be honest—the technical ability of the staff that manages each of those. It also depends on your organization’s culture and politics, as well as governmental regulations such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

The following section will present to you seven possible scenarios for SharePoint Server 2007 farm configurations: ...

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