Post Summary

The purpose of this article is to describe how to implement a medium SharePoint Farm – three-tier, four-servers.  Before going into details I would like to recommend you to download the following file: Topologies for SharePoint 2010.

If you want you can download this post as a PDF file – How to Implement a Three-Tier SharePoint Farm.

My SharePoint Topology

My environment is hosted on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and consists of four servers: SQL, SPLive1, SPLive2 and an Application Server.

Basically the services in farm will be split according to the following table (please take into consideration only the production environment – highlighted with green):