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 CHAPTER 1  SharePoint Foundation 2010 under the hood 
Server Farm, Stand-alone  This installation is essentially the same as the Standalone install 
you get by just clicking the Standalone button. Use this installation method if you intend 
to install SharePoint on one server only (you cannot use it as a server farm server), and you 
want SharePoint to install and use the SQL Server 2008 Express database engine on the same 
server. The only difference between this install type and Standalone is that it gives you the 
option to specify the location of your search index files.
Server Farm, Complete  This installation method is intended to, at its very simplest, let 
you specify to SharePoint, during installation, the SQL Server deployment you want it to use 
instead of installing SQL Server 2008 Express locally. Even if a full version of SQL Server is 
Figure 1.2 
SharePoint Foun-
dation installation 
types
Figure 1.3 
The two Server 
Farm options for 
installation
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