It involves installing SharePoint and any applicable service packs or cu’s, then adding the new server to the farm by running psconfig.

Remember that if you had made any manual changes on the file system, such as editing a web.config or feature xml, that those same files must be added to the new servers as well at the same location.

Once the new server is successfully added to the farm following guidance from Microsoft, we can tackle the Sitrion software component.

You can perform this in Central administration -> System Settings -> Manage Farm Features, or by running ToggleNGFarmInstallerFeatures.ps1 as a farm administrator.

Listed below are all farm features to toggle off/on from core and all modules. If you don’t see a feature in your farm, you likely don’t have the module installed and can skip it.

• NewsGator Enrich Module Installer (farm)
• NewsGator Idea Stream Installer
• NewsGator Innovation Module Installer (farm)
• NewsGator Internal Communications Installer (farm)
• NewsGator News Stream Installer
• NewsGator Spotlight Installer
• NewsGator Video Stream Module Installer

This can be accomplished through Central Administration -> System Settings -> Manage Services on server, and for each application tier server, start all NewsGator labeled services.

Alternatively, edit StartNGServices.ps1 to include your application tier servers in the array on line 6 and then update the corresponding NewsGator services that you want to start on line 11.

Save and then run as a farm administrator.

For each server you specified in StartNGServices.ps1, it starts NewsGator services there. These services may take some time to start.

Here are all NewsGator Services (if you don’t see one or more in the farm, you may not have the associated module installed):

• NewsGator Enrich Service
• NewsGator Innovation Service
• NewsGator Internal Communications Service
• NewsGator News Stream Service
• NewsGator Social Application Services
• NewsGator Social Platform Services v2.
• NewsGator Video Stream Service

Similar to step 3 above, this can be accomplished by navigating to Central Administration -> System Settings -> Manage Services on server, and for each web front end server, stop all NewsGator labeled services.

If you want to do this with powershell, edit StopNGServices.ps1 to include your web front end tier servers in the array on line 6 and then update the corresponding NewsGator services that you want to stop on line 12.

Save and then run as a farm administrator.

For each server you specified in StopNGServices.ps1, it will stop NewsGator services there. These services may take some time to stop.

You could edit the host file on your machine to verify functionality on each new web front end server.

a. Central Administration

i. System Settings -> Manage Farm Solutions – for each farm globally deployed NewsGator farm solution, click into and check the Last Operation Details – it should show the server name(s) of the server(s) you just added to the farm. If checking all solutions is too cumbersome, only check newsgator.core.application.wsp.

ii. System Settings -> Manage Farm Features– for each farm feature toggled in step 2, verify that it is reflected as active on the farm solutions page.

iii. System Settings -> Manage Services on server. For each server first verify the tier. If it’s an application tier server, verify that all Newsgator services are started. If it’s a web front end system, verify that the NewsGator services are stopped on the sytem.

b. Aurea Social Activity

• Create a microblog post
• Edit the microblog post
• Like the post
• comment the post
• Post a question
• Answer the question
• Create question with a poll
• Vote on the poll
• Follow a community
• Unfollow a community
• @target a community in a post
• Create a new blog post in a community
• Give someone a kudos badge