SharePoint: Web Front End Server (Definition and Explanation)

SharePoint : Web Front End server (WFE)

A web server that handles web page requests from users, processes the request and returns the data.
They process HTTP/S traffic and rely on Internet Information Server (IIS) to provide much of the web server 'stack'
In a farm there can be multiple Web Front End (WFE) servers and a Network Load Balancer (NLB) will distribute requests between them.
This is the primary method of scaling in SharePoint - as the number of users grows you add more WFE servers.
Is also used to add redundancy - If a WFE fails the NLB can distribute requests to other WFE's.

A typical SharePoint farm

Cannot Delete SharePoint List

Hi Friends,

When cleaning up your portal, you may run across a list that will not delete.

List settings will not show the “Delete this list” option or ribbon button.  Using SharePoint Designer to delete the list results in “Unable to save changes. This list cannot be deleted”.  The cause of this headache inducing behavior is that the list was created with the “Allow Deletion” flag set to FALSE.

This may have been done by a web part, solution or your friendly developer.  In any case, we can use some PowerShell Kung-Fu to get rid of the list.

Let’s say the portal URL is http://myportal and the offending list is named “MyList”.  The following PowerShell commands will delete the “undeletable” list.

$Web = Get-SPWeb http://myportal

$List = $Web.Lists["MyList"]

$List.AllowDeletion = $TRUE

$List.Update()

$List.Delete()

$Web.Dispose()

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