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456 Part VI: Administration of <strong>Microsoft</strong> Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003<br />

F17XR02.bmp<br />

Figure 17-2 The Server Configuration links on the SharePoint Portal Server Central<br />

Administration page<br />

Configure Server Topology<br />

This link is to a page that is used to view <strong>and</strong> assign the components of SharePoint<br />

Portal Server for each server in the farm <strong>and</strong> to remove servers from the farm. This<br />

page also allows administrators to change the components that servers in the farm<br />

will service. In effect, the four server types discussed earlier are defined by assigning<br />

respective servers one or more components to service. For example, a Job Server is<br />

defined by assigning to it the Job service component.<br />

There are three main sections to the Configure Server Topology page: Database<br />

Server Settings, Component Assignments, <strong>and</strong> Problems With This Configuration.<br />

Figure 17-3 shows the first two sections of the page.<br />

F17XR03.bmp<br />

Figure 17-3 The Configure Server Topology page, which is used for component assignment<br />

Database Server Settings<br />

Because everything, including configuration, is stored in a database, it makes sense to<br />

have to configure database settings first. There are four databases that are used in the

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