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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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