Your Entrance Ramp to Understanding and Using SharePoint Server 2010

Your task: Understand SharePoint Server 2010 and learn to use it effectively in your work.

But how do you get there? Where is the entrance ramp?







SharePoint Solutions is pleased to announce our brand new introductory course in the basics of SharePoint Server 2010. Introduction to SharePoint 2010 – Using SharePoint Server 2010 is a 4-day hands-on course on the basic concepts and basic features of SharePoint Server 2010. The course covers the features common to all editions of SharePoint 2010 (both free and paid-for), and then reveals the powerful additional functionality that only the paid-for editions (SharePoint Server 2010) provide.

This course assumes that the student has no familiarity with this or any previous version of SharePoint, which makes it the perfect starting place for anyone new to SharePoint who will be using SharePoint Server 2010 in their work. In just four days you’ll go from knowing little or nothing about SharePoint Server 2010, to having the skill and confidence to use it effectively every day.

Introduction to SharePoint 2010 – Using SharePoint Server 2010 is open now for registration on our website, with the first class running in Nashville on March 22-25, 2011. The cost of the 4-day course is $2395, which includes class tuition and course materials.

If you’ve been looking for the “on-ramp” to understanding SharePoint Server 2010, this is the course you’ve been looking for.

If you need to learn to use the free version of SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010, check out our 2-day course on the basics here.

How to Scale Out a SharePoint 2010 Farm From Two-Tier to Three-Tier by Adding a Dedicated Application Server

Three-Tier SharePoint Farm

Microsoft provides some good documentation on different SharePoint 2010 Farm deployment scenarios in the TechNet Library.  One of those is about how to deploy a three-tier SharePoint 2010 Farm, which is the second most common topology for a SharePoint farm.

But, I couldn't find anything on TechNet that walked through how to "scale out" to a three-tier SharePoint 2010 Farm from an existing two-tier SharePoint 2010 Farm (the most common SharePoint Farm topology).

A lot of SharePoint Server Farm Administrators eventually get to the point where they need to scale out and the most commonly desired way to do it is to add a dedicated Application Server and move the SharePoint 2010 Service Applications to it (shown in the diagram to the right).

I have written a detailed blog post with screenshots on our SharePoint Help site that walks through how to add a dedicated application server to an existing SharePoint 2010 two-tier farm:

http://sharepointsolutions.com/sharepoint-help/blog/2011/02/how-to-scale-out-a-sharepoint-2010-farm-from-two-tier-to-three-tier-by-adding-a-dedicated-application-server/