2.4 Assumptions and Preconditions

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The SharePoint Front-End Protocols system necessitates the following assumptions and preconditions:

  • The protocol clients can access the front-end Web servers running SharePoint Products and Technologies via one or more established IP addresses.

  • The functional components of the servers running SharePoint Products and Technologies are started collectively, and the front-end Web servers running SharePoint Products and Technologies accept requests from the protocol clients.

  • The front-end Web servers can access the back-end database servers and have the appropriate permissions to access data in the content and configuration databases.

  • The front-end Web servers and the back-end Web servers are running either the same versions of SharePoint Products and Technologies or versions that are within an acceptable range.

  • If Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) provides authentication, the directory service (DS) is accessible to the servers running SharePoint Products and Technologies. All the necessary ports and gateways of any intermediate firewalls, routers, or connection points between components of the system are open for communication.

The scope of this list of assumptions and preconditions is intended to be implementation-independent and limited to the system level.