9.3. The Bottom Line

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.

Master It

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

Use the Settings on the Operations Page

The Operations page is intended to contain settings specific to the administration of SharePoint as whole. It contains settings pertaining to defaults that govern all servers, web applications, etc, for the entire server (or server farm). The use and application of those settings vary, but the interface used to access them is much more consistent that it was with the ...

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