Understanding Security in SharePoint Central Administration

The Security section allows you to configure the security settings for the SharePoint farm. The following sections discuss the important Security screens.

Exploring Users Settings

The Users section contains various settings to manage users in the farm administrators group and to manage users in the Approve or Reject distribution groups. In addition you can provide users access at the web application level through the Specify Web Application User Policy screen.

General Security

This section allows you to configure various security settings as described in the following list:

Configure Managed Accounts—This screen allows you to add, edit, and delete managed accounts. A managed account ...

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