Chapter 6: Using the New Central Administration
What’s In This Chapter?
- Using the Farm Configuration Wizard
- Setting up Managed Accounts
- Finding your way around the new and improved interface
- Using the Ribbon in Central Administration
- Backing up and restoring your site with Central Administration
Now that you’ve laid down the SharePoint bits and finished running through the SharePoint Configuration Wizard, you get your first taste of using SharePoint 2010 when Central Administration launches.
This chapter mainly serves as a general overview of Central Administration. Many topics require more than just a few pages to adequately cover; in fact, some topics actually have entire chapters dedicated to them. In this chapter we’ll hit the major highlights of Central Administration, and point you to different areas in this book that cover certain topics in more detail.
A Quick Overview of the New Central Administration Interface
If you could navigate Central Administration in SharePoint 2007 with your eyes closed, you might be in for a bit of a shock when you first look at Central Administration in SharePoint 2010. One of the first things you will notice about the new Central Administration is that it looks nothing like the Central Administration in SharePoint 2007 that we came to know and love. In SharePoint 2010, all tasks and links are divided into one of eight categories. You can see these categories on the home page of Central Administration, both in the Quick Launch and in the ...
