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Today, I will demonstrate how to create a three-tiered SharePoint farm using Traditional topology. If you want to go through Streamline topology, you will need couple more servers to diversify the services and service applications. In SharePoint 2013 Installation and Configuration of the Server types are pretty much same. But, you should create the App server first that hosts the Central Administration. Then you can go on creating the servers as many as you want by choosing "Connecting to Existing Farm" during the installation process. The DNS for the sites should point to the NLB or WFE as the sites are being hosted into the WFEs instead of APP servers. The App servers should be configured for SharePoint service applications like Search, BI. Managed Meta Data etc.   1.        Create Necessary SharePoint Accounts 2.        Install SQL Server 2012 with Named Instance for SharePoint: It is recommended to use named instances for SharePoint Database serve