Re: Host WSS separate from SPS?

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OK, we have a small intranet built on SPS and CMS that is hosted on one web
server. I know SPS is built on top of WSS, but currently we don't use WSS to
create "sharepoint/team sites", WSS is only used for creating portal areas
etc.

Now we are looking into using the full potential of WSS to create sharepoint
sites for projects and so on. That will increase the load on the web server,
therefore we might need another server.

What we can to is a to add a second web server and set up load balancing,
but that will also force us to buy additional CMS and SPS licenses. Therefore
I'm looking into deploying WSS on a different server; that way we will only
need one additional windows license which is less expensive than a CMS and a
SPS license.

"Shane Young" wrote:

> You can have WSS uses a different content DB server. You can also install
> WSS completely independent of the SPS portal and then tell SPS to crawl
> those sites and manual add them to the site directory in SPS.
>
> Can I ask why? What are you trying to accomplish? Then maybe I could give
> you a more concise answer. Also, WSS is installed on your SPS box already.
> It is installed by SPS and is really the foundation that SPS is built on.
>
>
> --
> Shane Young
> http://www.lucruminc.com
>
>
> "FredrikT" <FredrikT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:532DD11B-FE65-4B00-8085-6E12C070961A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a small server farm deployment of SPS; one SPS web front end and
> > one
> > SQL Server. We are not using WSS (only the parts that are necessary for
> > SPS),
> > but the plan is to begin using it. I am wondering if it is possible to
> > host
> > the WSS sites on a completely different web server, but somehow connect
> > them
> > to the portal sites directory anyway? So, I don't want a SPS deployment
> > with
> > two web front ends, I'd rather would like one SPS web front end and one
> > WSS
> > web front end. Anyone has some ideas?
>
>
>
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