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The SharePoint Central Administration (CA) site is installed regardless of whether the installation is Basic or Advanced The only difference between them is what is done automatically and the additional features that are installed If the Basic install method is used

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for either WSS or MOSS, the installation process handles creating everything for the first site, including a default Shared Services Provider for MOSS Some minor settings (e-mail settings, logging, and so on) have to be added, but otherwise, it is ready to go As you saw in the configuration, this is not the case when using the Advanced installation method for a server farm The CA site is created, but no SSP, applications, or sites are MOSS requires an SSP to set up and WSS requires you to use the STSAdm Command-Line tool to create the first site (and any other top level sites after that) The CA site is set up to handle managing the server(s) in a farm, assigning services to servers, creating and managing applications, and in MOSS, managing the Shared Services The Operations side works with servers and assigned services and roles The Application Management side allows you to create and manage applications and the sites beneath them In MOSS, Shared Services provides control over farm-wide services including search, Excel Calculation Services (ECS), and the Business Data Catalog (BDC)

The CA site home page provides you access to the other areas of administration and the Administrator Task List This page is identical for both WSS and MOSS (except for an additional link to Shared Services Administration in MOSS) There are several ways to open the CA site For one, select Start | All Programs | Administrative Tools | SharePoint 30 Central Administration on the server When the home page appears, it will look something like this:

In MOSS, the home page looks exactly the same except for the left-hand navigation Of special note is the Administration Task List, which is primarily used during configuration, but is also used periodically when something in the farm needs addressing and you need an easy place to create your own tasks In addition, there are two web parts shown by default: the Farm Topology, which lists both the current server(s) and services they are running, and the Resources link list, a standard list for adding administrative-related links This page can be edited and additional web parts added as needed the same as any other web part page in SharePoint

The operations side of CA allows you to manage the global aspects of the platform, including server and topology management, security, and logging To see this, open the CA site via Start | All Programs | Administrative Tools | SharePoint 30 Central Administration From the home page, click the Operations tab or link to display the Operations page This looks the same in WSS or MOSS; the only differences are a few additional options and sections that apply only to MOSS as highlighted:

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Now I ll go through each option, and I ll explain when and why (if applicable) it is used All of the options that follow are accessed from the Operations page mentioned previously

This section applies to the actual server and assigned services (the topology) of the SharePoint instance

will still appear here This option is provided simply for viewing existing and removed servers (adding a server is when a server joins an existing farm during installation it cannot be added manually) Before you remove a server or uninstall (see below), you should stop all services that server is running Return to the Operations page, click the Services on Server link, select the correct server in the drop-down list selection, and stop all services being run by that server On return, you ll see that all services have been stopped and the server is listed as not configured: