SharePoint Server 2010 has two installation options:
1- Complete Installation:
You can add more Web Front End Servers, Application Services Servers, and DataBase servers to your
farm.
2- Stand-alone Installation:
This installs all the components of SharePoint on one server, and you don't have the possibility to join more
servers to the Farm.
One of the limitations of Stand-alone Scenario is:
"The User Profile Synchronization service is not designed to work on a stand-alone installation of SharePoint Server 2010."
Source:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983061
1- Complete Installation:
You can add more Web Front End Servers, Application Services Servers, and DataBase servers to your
farm.
2- Stand-alone Installation:
This installs all the components of SharePoint on one server, and you don't have the possibility to join more
servers to the Farm.
One of the limitations of Stand-alone Scenario is:
"The User Profile Synchronization service is not designed to work on a stand-alone installation of SharePoint Server 2010."
Source:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983061
This will happen when you install sharepoint server using sql express edition. Other than unable to synchronize the user profiles, you will get a database size limit of 4 GB.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, if you install SP with sql server edition on the same server, you can synchronize profiles successfully.
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