Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Accessing the Improved Administration, Monitoring, and Backup Tools

There are two major improvements in the area of administration for SharePoint. The first comes in a revamped SharePoint Central Administration tool, shown in Figure 1.4. The second comes with the addition of Microsoft PowerShell as a scripting administration interface.

Figure 1.4. Examining the revamped SharePoint Central Administration tool.

Administrators familiar with SharePoint 2007 will recall the SharePoint Central Admin tool, a web-based interface used to administer SharePoint functionality. SharePoint 2010 greatly improves this interface, organizing functional tasks within ...