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Dean_Gross
Apr 27, 2017Silver Contributor
Search Architectures for SharePoint Server 2016
I have a new client with content in file servers. They want to use SPO and we planning on installing a SP 2016 Search Farm with Hybrid enabled to crawl the file shares. A Small Search Farm should be ...
Dean_Gross
Apr 27, 2017Silver Contributor
What is FP2? Has that been announced somewhere?
Apr 27, 2017
I think he means FP1 :)
But you'll need Dist Cache whether you want it or not, so you must go the Custom route for a 2 node farm.
- Dean_GrossApr 28, 2017Silver Contributor
Trevor Seward why would we need a Dist Cache server in a Search Farm?
BTW, I bought your book and chapter 3 is awesome. I have never seen so much detail about server configuration in one place. Your explanations and rationale are very well done and will be extremely helpful when I have conversations with my clients.
- Apr 28, 2017You cannot run a supported SharePoint farm without Dist Cache, no matter what role it is playing.
And thanks! That was a fun chapter to write, and /generally/ how I'll build farms for clients, should they let me use Windows Core :-)
- Apr 27, 2017
Yeap, sorry FP1 :-)...there is no FP2 :P