The administration of a server farm or a stand-alone server
requires adding, editing, and deleting settings in the configuration database.
We can edit this data by using the administrative tools provided in MOSS 2007.
These are the administrative tools that are available.
1. SharePoint Central Administration
2. Shared Services Administration
1. SharePoint Central Administration
The SharePoint Central Administration site is the central
hub for administering WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. This site uses the .NET Framework
to access the configuration database for adding, editing, or changing
configuration settings.
A shortcut to this site is automatically generated when we
run the setup wizard for WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007. We can access this shortcut from
the Start menu. We will also access this site by using the URL of the
administrative Web site from a computer having network access to a Web server.
The administrative settings on the site are categorized as
operations and application management. We can modify these settings from the
following two Web pages:
Operations Page: On this page, we
can configure the general settings applicable to a WSS 3.0 server or a server
farm. Some examples of these settings are security, backup, restore, and SMTP.
Application Management Page: On this
page, we can configure settings related to specific Web applications and
components installed on the server or server farm. For example, we can
configure settings for Site Collection quotas, search service, and workflow. In
addition, we can configure settings for specific Site Collections on the Site
Collection settings page.
2. Shared Services Administration
We can use the Shared Services Administration site to
configure and manage shared services such as My Sites, profiles, search and
indexing functions. This site is automatically created on the Share Point
Central Administration Web site when we configure MOSS 2007.
To access the Shared Services Administration site, on the
SharePoint Central Administration Web site, we have to do the following. Go to
the Application Management page and click the Create or configure this farm's
shared services link.
The stsadm.exe tool is a
command-line utility that provides functionality similar to the Shared Services
Administration site. This tool is also used for customizing and managing Share
Point. It also provides some additional commands that are not available on the
Shared Services Administration site. This utility creates batch files for
automating administrative tasks and, therefore, takes less time for repetitive
tasks than User Interface (UI) based methods.
For example, to create batch files using the stsadm.exe
utility, we need to set the default alert frequency to one minute by using the
set property operation. To perform this task, we will use the following
command:
Stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname job-immediate-alerts -URL
http://aspportal.com l -propertyvalue
"every 1 minute between 0 and 59"
However, using the stsadm.exe tool does not offer much
flexibility in configuring settings. For example, if we deploy Web Parts using
stsadm.exe, we cannot control where all the Web Parts are deployed.
