About virtual server configuration settings

After you have installed Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and extended a virtual server, you can configure settings for the virtual server. Specifying the following options at the virtual server level affects all sites on that virtual server:

Site creation settings Enable or disable the ability for users to create sites.
Site use confirmation and auto-deletion settings Determine whether to require confirmation of site use, or whether to automatically delete unused Web sites.
User rights settings Specify which rights to make available to users of sites on your virtual server.
Virtual server general settings Configure settings to use as defaults for all sites that are created on your virtual server.
E-mail settings Specify the outbound e-mail server to use, and the e-mail addresses to use when accepting or sending e-mail messages to and from the server. You can also configure and use e-mail settings at the server level.
Web Part Page security settings Specify whether users can add connections between Web Parts in a Web site, and whether the Microsoft Office 2003 Web Part gallery is available.

In addition, you can perform the following administration tasks from the virtual server level:

Manage content databases You can create or delete content databases, or change the capacity settings for a particular content database.
Manage defined paths You can add or remove included and excluded paths to control which areas of the URL namespace are managed by Windows SharePoint Services.
Create or delete a top-level Web site You can create a top-level Web site or delete an existing top-level Web site.
Remove Windows SharePoint Services from the virtual server You can remove Windows SharePoint Services either permanently or temporarily.
Configure settings for data retrieval services You can specify settings to be used for data retrieval services. These are Web services that return XML data from different data sources or that manipulate data against those data sources.

About General settings for a virtual server

The Virtual Server General Settings page contains several options that apply to any sites that you create for the virtual server. When you configure a setting for a virtual server, it takes priority over settings applied on specific sites of that virtual server. For example, if you disable alerts for a virtual server, no site or subsite can use alerts. However, if you enable alerts on the virtual server, each top-level Web site can allow or disallow alerts for that Web site and its subsites. For more information about how each setting is treated at different levels, see the specific topic for that setting.

You can configure the following settings on the Virtual Server General Settings page:

Time zone to use for the virtual server Select a time zone to use for all sites created on this virtual server.
Default quota template for sites created under the virtual server Specify the default quota template to use. When you create a top-level Web site, you can create it using the default template or a different template.
Online presence and smart tags for user names settings Enable or disable presence information for site members.
Maximum upload size Specify the maximum file size to allow when files are uploaded to a Web site on this virtual server.
Alert settings Enable or disable alerts for all sites under the virtual server, and configure default settings for alerts.
Web page security validation Enable or disable security validation for Web site pages, and specify how long to wait before the validation expires for a given page.
User name and password settings in e-mail Specify whether to send user names and passwords in e-mail messages to new users. This setting is used for user account mode for Active Directory directory servive only.
E-mail attachments Allow or disallow document libraries to include e-mail messages and e-mail attachments. Specify the public folder path for e-mail attachments and how frequently to check for attachments.
Event handlers Enable or disable event handlers. After the feature is turned on, you can write code to handle the events, and then specify the code to use for a particular document library in the document library settings.

About virtual server configuration settings

About General settings for a virtual server

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