Central Administration in Sharepoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 Central Administration

Central Administration?

Central Administration in SharePoint Server 2013 is where you go to perform administration tasks from a central location. Administrators browse to the SharePoint Central Administration website to complete many administrative operations on a single farm. No coding knowledge needed

Central Administration is categorized as:

• Application Management
• System Settings
• Monitoring
• Backup and Restore
• Security
• Upgrade and Migration
• General Application Settings
• Apps
• Configuration Wizards.

v Application Management

The Application Management page contains links to pages where you can manage Web applications, site collections, service applications and databases.

Ø  Web Applications

Manage web applications -  Create and configure web applications

Configure alternate access mappings - Configure the internal and public URL mapping for web applications in the farm.

Ø  Site Collections

Create site collections - Create a new top level website

Delete a site collection -Completely remove a top level site and all subsites. This operation will permanently remove all content contained in the given site collection.

Confirm site use and deletion – Require site collection administrators to confirm that their site collections are in use and optionally schedule automatic site collection deletion.

Specify quota templates- Create or edit site collection quota templates

Configure quotas and locks – Configure the maximum size of a site collection and whether new content can be added

Change site collection administrators – Change the primary and secondary owners of a site collection

View all site collections – View a list of all site collections in the farm.

Configure self-service site creation-  Enable users to create their own site collections at a specified url namespace

Ø  Service Applications

Manage service Applications – Create or manage service applications

Configure service application associations – Specify the service application used by each web application.

Manage services on server – Select the services that run on each server in the farm.

Ø  Databases

Manage content databases – Add or configure content databases that are attached to a web application

Specify the default database server – Define the default server where new content databases will be created

Configure the data retrieval service – Enable the farm or a given web application to communicate with data consumers and sources through SOAP and XML

v System Settings

Manage servers, features, solutions and farm-wide settings

           

Ø  Servers

Manage servers in this farm – Configure and enable services to run on the local farm

Manage services on server -  Select the services that will run on each server in the farm

Ø  E-Mail and Text Messages (SMS)

Configure outgoing e-mail settings- Define the default outgoing e-mail server and addresses

Configure incoming e-mail settings- Enable e-mail enabled lists

Configure mobile account- Configure a web application to use a text messaging service (SMS) for alerts, invitations, or administrator notifications.

Ø  Farm Management

Configure alternate access mappings- Configure the internal and public URL mapping for web applications in the farm.

Manage farm features – Enable or disable farm-wide SharePoint functionality

Manage farm solutions- Deploy or retract solution packages across the farm

Manage user solutions – Configure execution of site collection solutions within the local farm

Configure privacy options – Configure privacy settings for this farm

Configure cross-firewall access zone – Configure which URL Zone should be used for cross-firewall access

v Monitoring

Track, report, and view the health and status of your SharePoint Farm

Ø  Health Analyzer

Review problems and solutions – View the problems detected by the SharePoint Health Analyzer and take steps to solve those problems

Review rule definitions- View and modify the list of rules that the SharePoint Health Analyzer will run to evaluate the health of your farm

Ø  Timer Jobs

Review job definitions – Review and toggle timer jobs that are defined in this farm

Check job status – View the status and results for the last execution of timer jobs that are enabled in the farm

Ø  Reporting

View administrative reports- View of all administrative reports.

Configure diagnostic logging – Enable and configure advanced loggings settings for this farm

Configure usage and health data collection – Enable usage analysis and define a processing schedule

View health reports – view various reports that can help you determine the health of your farm

v Backup and Restore

Perform a backup or restore operation, or view history and status details

Ø  Farm Backup and Restore

Perform a backup – Backup portions of this farm to a file

Restore from a backup – Restore content to this farm using a backup file

Configure backup settings – Configure the default backup and restore settings

View backup and restore history – Configure the default location for backup log files

Check backup and restore job status – Review current and previous backup and restore jobs

Ø  Granular Backup

Perform a site collection backup – Backup the contents of a site collection

Export a site or list – Export the contents of a site or a list

Recover data from an unattached content database – Connect to a content database to explore the contents or retrieve data

Check granular backup job status – View the status of an export or a site collection backup operation

v Security

Manage settings for users, policy and global security

Ø  Users

Manage the farm administrators group – Manage the farm administrators group. Members of this group have complete access to all settings in the farm and can take ownership of any content site

Approve or reject distribution groups – Approve or reject distribution groups

Specify web application user policy – Configure advanced user permission policies for a specific web application

Ø  General Security

Configure managed accounts – Specify the managed accounts and their password change schedules

Configure service accounts – Manage the credentials this farm and associated services uses

Configure password change settings – Specify the global password change notification settings

Specify authentication providers – Configure the membership and role providers that are used to authenticate users per web application zone

Manage trust – Enable users to manage trusts with other SharePoint farms

Manage antivirus settings – Configure farm antivirus settings

Define blocked file types – Define the file types that are not allowed to be added to a web application or globally to the farm

Manage web part security – Define the default web part settings for a site collection

Configure self-service site creation – Enables users to create their own site collections at a specified URL namespace

Ø  Information Policy

Configure information rights management – Protect sensitive documents from being misused or distributed

Configure information management policy – Configure information management policy

v Upgrade and Migration

Upgrade SharePoint, add licenses, enable Enterprise features, and more

Ø  Upgrade and Patch Management

Convert farm license type – It Converts farm license type

Enable Enterprise Features – It helps to enable enterprise features

Check product and patch installation status – View the current product and patch installation status

Review database status – View the list of databases and their current upgrade status

Check upgrade status – View the status of current and previous upgrade events

v General Application Settings

Configure general application and feature settings

Ø  External Service Connections

Configure send to connections – Configure send to connections to external document repositories

Configure document conversions – Enable and configure document conversion capabilities

Ø  InfoPath Form Services

Manage form templates – Helps to manage form templates

Configure InfoPath Forms Services – Configure the InfoPath forms services

Upload Form Template – Helps to upload the form template

Manage data connection files – Manage the data connection files

Configure InfoPath Form Services Web Service Proxy – Configure the InfoPath form services web service proxy

Ø  SharePoint Designer

Configure SharePoint Designer Settings – Customize which SharePoint designer capabilities are allowed for a given web application

Ø  Search

Farm Search Administration – Farm Search Administration

Crawler Impact Rules – Crawler impact rules

Ø  Content Deployment

Configure content deployment paths and jobs - Configure content deployment paths and jobs

Configure Content Deployment - Configure Content Deployment

Check deployment of specific content - Check deployment of specific content

Ø  SQL Server Reporting Services (2008 and 2008 R2)

Reporting Services Integration - Reporting Services Integration

Add a Report Server to the Integration - Add a Report Server to the Integration

Set server defaults - Set server defaults

Ø  PWA Settings

Manage – manage PWA

v Apps

Manage and monitor your apps

Ø  SharePoint and Office Store

Purchase Apps – Purchase apps from the SharePoint store

Manage App Licenses – Manage App Licenses

Configure Store Settings – Use this page to manage app acquisition settings

Ø  App Management

Manage App Catalog – Manage app catalog for a web application

Monitor Apps- Track usage of applications and review errors

Configure App URLs – Configure App URLs

App Permissions – Manage app access to this farm

v Configuration Wizards

Use wizards to help configure advanced scenarios

Ø  Farm Configuration

Launch the Farm Configuration Wizard – Launch the farm configuration wizard