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Application Management

The third major grouping of administrative tasks is Application Management. This grouping allows you to quickly navigate to configuring and managing Web applications, site collections, shared services, and other application-specific functions.

Creating Web Applications

Creating Web applications is one of the most basic and fundamental aspects of administering SharePoint products. A Web application provides the interface that users interact with from their browsers. Web applications are a combination of IIS virtual servers, associated content databases, and entries for both in the configuration database. Creating a Web application is covered in detail in Chapter 2, so refer there for detailed information on creating a Web application. ...