Using the Central Administration Home Page

When the Central Administration Home page first loads, you are presented with a simple page-to-navigate interface. There are two core management Web Parts on the page and one Web part for creating links:

  • The Administrative Tasks Web part

  • The Farm Topology Web part

  • Resources Web part

Navigational aids are on the quick launch section of the page and the Site Actions menu for managing the page and team site, as shown in Figure 6-2. Note that Central Administration is exposed via a Windows SharePoint Services team site configured or provisioned to be the Central Administration site for your SharePoint Server 2007 deployment.

Figure 6-2. The Central Administration Home page

The three Home page Web Parts are preconfigured ...

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