A.9. Chapter 9: Central Administrations: Operations

Understand Central Administration's Organization

SharePoint's Central Administration is organized in two pages, Operations and Application Management, with a home page that has several useful web parts.

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Is it a good idea to use Central Administration to hold shared library content, lists, and calendars? Why?

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Although Central Administration has the capability to have these items available for the administrators who visit the site, it is strongly discouraged because this site cannot be restored by conventional means within SharePoint. If you must add content, consider creating a subsite off of Central Administration's top-level site, and back it up regularly. Then, ...

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