| Main areas of Sharepoint Central Administration
Sharepoint Central Administration is mainly used to configure servers and roles for that and define farm topology and also help in creating web application and site collections. Below are the main areas of SPCA
(1)Appilcation Management here we can create new web application Site Collections and Content Databases and manage existing web applications as well.
(2)Second area is Monitoring here we access to tools which helps in monitoring the farm and alos checking issues and for solving problems.
(3)Third is Security here we manage administrative accountsand services account of the farm.
(4)Fourth is General Application Settings here we can manage general settings like site directory, search engine, content deployment features and infopath fomr services.
(5)Another is System Settings here we can manage servers in the farm, Farm topology, Services on Servers and farm cutomization features.
(6)Six is Backup and Restore area provide to acess all the tool for managing and handling recovery tasks.
(7)Another is Upgrade and Migration here we can manage updgrade and patching tasks.
(8)COnfiguration Wizards helps in configure the farm.
Below figure will helps to get above information
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