From an infrastructure perspective, Microsoft's design principles primarily focused on using MinRole-based farm topologies. MinRole is new to SharePoint Server 2016 and later. If you're not quite sure what MinRole is, please review Chapter 2, Planning a SharePoint Farm, for information on MinRole server roles and what services comprise each role.
When discussing the term core infrastructure as it relates to SharePoint Server, we're going to look at a few key areas:
- Server management from Central Administration
- SQL Server
- Distributed Cache
Let's take a look.
Server management from Central Administration
SharePoint configuration and management tasks are initiated within the Central Administration site. To easily access it, click on the Central Administration link from the Start menu on a server with SharePoint installed. You can also access it from any device by navigating to a server...
