IDG Contributor Network: Building your SharePoint Server 2016 farm using MinRoles
SharePoint Server 2016 introduces the MinRole feature, which is used during the deployment of SharePoint Server 2016 to define the role of the server being added to the SharePoint farm.
In previous versions, we would run through a typical installation of SharePoint and then spend time creating and configuring the services on the new server needed in order for that server to perform the actions you wanted it to perform in the farm. Needless to say, this would require a comprehensive plan of how each server needed to be configured and the necessary steps to complete the configuration process for each server.
In SharePoint Server 2016, the services are automatically configured on each server based on the server's MinRole, and the performance of the server in the farm is optimized based on the farm topology.
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