SharePoint 2016 Central Admin - System Settings - Manage Farm Solution.
When you click on the "Manage Farm Solution" link, you are landed on Solution Management page. This page gives an option to the SharePoint Administrator to manage the solutions which are deployed to farm level, or the Admin can also deploy the new solutions. If no solution is deployed to the farm, then you will get the following page.
Or if some solutions are deployed to farm, then you will get something like this. Manage Farm Solution page’s direct link - /_admin/Solutions.aspx
Farm solutions are installed to the solution store of a farm by a farm administrator. The components in the solution can, and usually do, run in full trust, and no resource usage restrictions are placed on them.
As a SharePoint Administrator, we often want to know
In this article, I will try to explain the 1st part of the question and in the next article, we will explain deployment and retraction part.
In this article, we will walk through the steps on how we can get the information about a solution which is added to the farm via Central Admin. We can do the same via PowerShell but that’s not the scope of this article.
To get the solution information
Please follow the below steps to get the information about the solutions.
In this article, we learned how we can get the information about a solution which is deployed to SharePoint farm using the Central admin web application. In part 2 of this article, we will explain how to deploy a solution and how to retract it.
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