Common Central Administration Tasks
As mentioned earlier, Central Administration is divided into three main subdivisions based on functionality. The first one, operations, focuses on the configuration of servers and services, including server topology, overall SharePoint security, upgrade and migration, backup and restore, and content deployment. Content deployment is related to web content management and is required only if the portal requires automated content deployment. The second section, application management, deals with the tasks specific to application creation, site collection management, shared services, InfoPath forms services, application-specific security, workflow, and data connections. The final section, Shared Services Provider (SSP), is used to configure the search, business data catalog settings, Excel services settings, SharePoint My Sites, and audiences.
Figure 23-1. Administrative tasks list
Operations Page
This section explores some of the important and most common administrative tasks performed using the operations section.
Services on server
One of the first tasks in a server farm is to configure each server in the farm with appropriate services. This task is performed with the "Services on server" option under the "Topology and Services" section in the Operations page. SharePoint 2007 has five different roles that can be used to configure a server within the farm. ...
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