SharePoint Server Roles and Responsibilities
SharePoint server technologies are created from a highly modular methodology, affording you the flexibility to design and implement in a variety of topologies starting from a single server deployment in which all server roles are part of a single server to a distributed model (more commonly known as farm mode). SharePoint server roles are really defined by the services that are running the server in the SharePoint farm.
You have a lot of flexibility when deploying in farm mode. You can combine server roles to reduce the number of servers required for your organization. For example, you could combine the web front-end server with a query so that you can reduce the number of hops that the information ...
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