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SharePoint Server 2016 introduces the MinRole feature, which is used during the deployment of SharePoint Server 2016 to define the role of the server being added to the SharePoint farm. In previous ...

Let’s take a look… I built a web farm using two web servers running ASP.NET and IIS. On the back-end I installed two database servers running SQL Server. The idea was to use NLB on the front-end for ...

Microsoft is offering users the opportunity to take a virtual tour of a typical Azure datacentre so they can get a behind-the-scenes look at the technology powering the public cloud services they use.

Microsoft Corp. on Monday completed development on a key server designed to help enterprise customers manage distributed Web applications. The company’s Application Center 2000 server was released to ...

SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. on Monday opened the doors of a massive data center in central Washington, turning what was once a bean farm into a “server farm.” The data center, based in Quincy is about ...

A group of servers that are housed in one facility. A server farm comprises dozens, hundreds or even thousands of rack-mounted servers, typically running the same operating system, although there may ...