In this article I would like to experiment with Central Administration web applications.About Central AdministrationThe SharePoint Central Administration is a website used for:
In summary the Central Administration is an Administrator/Developer tool. It is used to manage the websites for other users.Opening Central AdministrationWe can access central administration from the start menu item:On executing the command you can see the following screen in the browser (ensure you provided the credentials properly - by default it will be system username and password)Now we are ready to explore web applications. Before that we need to go through the hierarchy of web applications, sites etc.
HierarchyThe following is the hierarchy of SharePoint Farms, Web Applications, Site Collections, Sites, Lists and Documents.The following is the description of the items in the above image:
Viewing existing Web ApplicationsOn installation, there are 2 web applications by default:
To view the web applications, click on the Manage web applications link under Applications Management category. You will see the following screen:Please note the URLs for each of the web applications.Referenceshttp://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/sharepoints-site-hierarchy-model.html SummaryIn this article we have seen the hierarchy of SharePoint and creation of WebSite and SiteCollection.
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