{"id":129,"date":"2012-02-09T12:39:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/2012\/02\/how-to-tell-if-a-sharepoint-installation-is-standalone-or-farm\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:47:06","slug":"how-to-tell-if-a-sharepoint-installation-is-standalone-or-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2012\/02\/09\/how-to-tell-if-a-sharepoint-installation-is-standalone-or-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Tell if a SharePoint Installation is Standalone or Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is oddly useful information when you start to run into a situation where you\u2019d like to scale a SharePoint server, but find nuances that it may be a standalone installation.<\/p>\n<p>Look in the registry under:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Shared Tools\\Web Server Extensions\\14.0\\WSS&quot;<\/p>\n<p>There will be an entry for &quot;ServerRole&quot; which will tell you the installation type<\/p>\n<p>Stand Alone &#8211; SINGLESERVER<\/p>\n<p>Farm Stand Alone &#8211; WFE<\/p>\n<p>Farm Complete &#8211; APPLICATION<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this forums post: <a title=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/sharepoint2010general\/thread\/a498bb63-c706-471a-ad3f-1e6c63d4e3cc\/\" href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/sharepoint2010general\/thread\/a498bb63-c706-471a-ad3f-1e6c63d4e3cc\/\">http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/sharepoint2010general\/thread\/a498bb63-c706-471a-ad3f-1e6c63d4e3cc\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is oddly useful information when you start to run into a situation where you\u2019d like to scale a SharePoint server, but find nuances that it may be a standalone installation. 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