I have a 4 server farm. Two SQL 2005 Servers mirrored. One web front end server (called Alpha) that has the following: Central Admin, Excel Calulation Services, Office SharePoint Server Search, Windows SharePoint Service Help Search, Windows SharePoint Services Incomming E-Mail, Windows SharePoint Services Web Application. The is the primary web front end server. Another web front end server (called Beta) that has the following: Windows SharePoint Services Incomming Email, Windows SharePoint Services Web Application. This web front end server is part of the farm but does nothing. There is NO Network Load Balancing. I am trying to perform a failover situation. I have read the document titled "Using SQL Server Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services". I know how to manually failover the database to make the mirror the Principal. I also know in the document steps are provided to "Reconnect SharePoint Products and Technologies front-end Web servers to the active database server" My question is this, can I use the information in the "Reconnect SharePoint Products and Technologies front-end Web servers to the active database server" section to connect the web front end server called Beta to the SQL server that I have failed over and have everything work just like it did with my Alpha web front end server.

Hi John, Thanks for your reply. Ironically that's what I'm looking for. The SharePoint environment I have does not function as a typical sharepoint environment. It has only one website attached to it. No documents are uploaded by users to the SharePoint site. The website is strictly informational e.g. read only data. With your 'The Beta server may be able to successfully serve up content" I presume that means the websiteand that's all that I'm looking for. Essentially this is a kinda bass ackwars way of failover I need to try and attempt to do to prove somekind on twisted redundancy. So by having the Beta wfe join the farm and specifying the SQL server in the setup for the Beta wfe, it has the necessary information to serve up content? Thanks