I have an existing web farm hosting a number of regular web sites, currently in a NLB configuration. I want to add SP to this environment but I am not sure what issues I might run into either with SharePoint or my other sites. Currently curring a IIS7 Web Farm, is this possible or is this not recommended.

Hi J.Cole, Thanks for your post. As I understand, you want to add a new server to an existing SharePoint Farm, am I right? You can do this as this post: SharePoint 2007: http://grounding.co.za/blogs/neil/archive/2008/02/06/joining-a-wfe-server-to-a-sharepoint-farm.aspx At the same time, what’s the meaning of “Other sites”? Is it SharePoint site or not? If it’s not SharePoint site, I suggest you to create a new thread in Asp>net Forum. Thanks, Wayne TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com

Hi J.Cole, Thanks for your post. As I understand, you want to add a new server to an existing SharePoint Farm, am I right? You can do this as this post: SharePoint 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261752.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/priyo/archive/2007/08/11/add-new-sharepoint-server-to-existing-server-farm-an-unhandled-exception-occurred-in-the-user-interface-exception-information-unable-to-connect-to-the-remote-server.aspx SharePoint 2007: http://grounding.co.za/blogs/neil/archive/2008/02/06/joining-a-wfe-server-to-a-sharepoint-farm.aspx At the same time, what’s the meaning of “Other sites”? Is it SharePoint site or not? If it’s not SharePoint site, I suggest you to create a new thread in Asp>net Forum. Thanks, Wayne TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com

Sorry if this was not clear. what I have is four web servers in a NLB configuration hosting regular IIS web sites. Approx 100 +/- I want to utilize these servers and the NLB configuration for our sharepoint environment, am I able to blend both our web hosting solution and configuration along with our Sharepoint env.

Hello J Cole, The usual problem is that the existing web site is using port 80 and a SharePoint installation will also use port 80 leading to problems. When you install WSS 3.0 , you can specify a different port than 80 for your default (SharePoint) web site. (Don't use the basic installation – you won’t get a chance to change the port with that.) WSS 3.0 should automatically ignore sites that aren't SharePoint sites, and thus not mess them up by passing them via the WSS 3.0 pre-processor routines. (Unlike WSS 2.0 where you had to create an exclusion list.) If you have host headers or multiple IPs, then that makes things very easy. If you don't, it still works, you just need to make sure your namespaces don't collide and also you have proper CNAME records in your DNS. Below is an article you can refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287748(office.12).aspx Thanks, Manas

Hi J. I would strongly recommend you installing SharePoint on different servers other than those existing servers. Depends on the version of SharePoint you are going to install (presumably MOSS 2007) which is highly resource consuming/demanding. It's going to add a lot of load onto your current WFE servers especially if you use those WFE for indexing/crawling. Plus your have 100+ sites on your load balancing WFEs alerady. I would really keep SharePoint away from those "working" sites. SharePoint can be nasty sometimes if not planned and handled properly. Cheers, Allen Wang | http://blogs.msdn.com/allenwang