I am in the process of installing and configuring a new SharePoint 2013 farm. Below are the specs of the farm and steps executed so far. My objective is to not have DistributedCache activated on the two app servers. It will be activated on the 3 WFEs.
Farm:
- 2 app servers
- 3 WFEs
- 3 SQL physical boxes in a cluster, SQL Server 2012, using HA with availability groups
Steps executed so far:
- Installed Prerequisites
- Installed SharePoint Server 2013, Enterprise. The Complete option was chosen (not Stand Alone)
- Created Config and Admin databases using command line: New-SPConfigurationDatabase with -SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost
The above steps were completed successfully. Next step is to start PSConfig with the command line option SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost on the 2 app servers. My plan is to build the services using PowerShell scripts or CA after running the wizard.
The issue is that all of the PSConfig examples on line that uses SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost also includes the command to create the config database. For example: .\PSCONFIG.EXE -cmd Configdb create SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost
As noted above, the configuration database is already created. I do not wish the DistributedCache to be activated on the two app servers in the farm. Therefore, I need to run the PSConfig command that with the option 'SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost'. The help at the command line for PSConfig did not provide any clarity since it did not make any reference to SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost.
After running PSConfig on the two app servers then my plan is to run the SharePoint 2013 Products Configuration Wizard (the GUI) on the WFEs. Any help on this would be appreciated.
VBCoder60