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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services includes tools to help you manage the Web sites you create. You can manage Windows SharePoint Services locally by using HTML Administration pages or a command-line interface, or remotely by using HTML Administration pages. In addition, you can set properties — such as specifying whether alerts are enabled for a virtual server — by using the command-line interface or HTML Administration pages.
Windows SharePoint Services includes HTML Administration pages to help you manage your Web sites and servers. You can use these forms on the local server computer or from a remote computer that is connected to the Internet. You must have administrator rights to use HTML Administration pages.
For Windows SharePoint Services, there are two types of administration pages:
The Central Administration pages allow you to manage settings for your Web server and virtual servers. These pages are created during Windows SharePoint Services Setup. By default, a newly created virtual server inherits settings from defaults set on the Central Administration pages. You can change these default settings and specify what settings to use for each extended virtual server. You must be a member of the local administrators group for the server computer or a member of the SharePoint administrators group to view the Central Administration pages.
The Central Administration pages are stored on the administration port that Windows SharePoint Services created during Setup. To view the pages, on the Start menu, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint Central Administration; or, from the browser on a remote computer, type the URL for the pages on the administration port. For example: http://servername:port or http://localhost:
Note You can also open the administration pages locally by using localhost on the Run command. Click Start, click Run, type http://localhost:port, and then click OK.
In addition to the Central Administration pages, which control settings for each server and virtual server, there are administration pages that control settings for each Web site. You can perform some administrative actions from the Site Settings page, and you can link from there to the Site Administration page. You must have administrator rights to the Web site to perform administrative actions on the Site Settings and Site Administration pages.
From the Site Settings and Site Administration pages, you can perform tasks such as the following:
You can add or remove users, edit site groups, and change a user's site group membership. For more information, see Manage users and groups and Assign permissions to users and groups.
You can add a subsite or manage the existing subsites of your Web site.
If anonymous access is available for the virtual server that contains your Web site, you can control whether it is enabled for your Web site. For more information, see Assign permissions to users and groups.
You can change the locale, time zone, sort order, and time format to use for your Web site. For more information, see Manage Web discussions.
You can view all Web discussions and user alerts for your Web site and delete any that are no longer needed. For more information, see Manage Web discussions and Manage alerts.
Note that if you are managing a subsite, the administration tasks that are available on the Site Administration page for the subsite are a subset of those that are available for top-level Web sites of a virtual server.
The Site Settings and Site Administration pages are stored in the _layouts directory of the Web site. The navigation bar for each SharePoint site includes a Site Settings link that takes you to these pages. Even if you do not have a SharePoint site, you can get to these pages for SharePoint sites from a compatible Web page editor, such as Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, or by typing the URL to the pages directly in the browser.
To view the pages from Office FrontPage 2003, on the Tools menu, click Server, and then click Administration Home.
The path to the Site Settings page is http://websiteurl/_layouts/lcid/settings.aspx, where lcid refers to the locale ID. For example, for U.S. English, the lcid is 1033.
The path to the Site Administration page is http://websiteurl/_layouts/lcid/webadmin.aspx.
The files for the Site Settings and Site Administration pages are stored in the ..\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\template\admin\lcid folder.
When you install Windows SharePoint Services, the Central Administration pages are installed to an administration port. You use these pages on the administration port to manage your server remotely. You can open Central Administration pages from any client computer, provided you know the administration port number and log on by using an account that is a member of the Administrators group on the server. You can use the Site Administration pages by using an account that is a member of a site group with the Manage Web Site right for that site.
If you have chosen to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) on your administration port, you must use the HTTPS protocol to go to the pages. For more information about configuring SSL, see Configure authentication.
For example, type https://sample.microsoft.com:1439.
After you connect to the remote HTML Administration pages, you can perform any of the administration tasks as if you were connected locally.
Most tasks that you can perform from the Server Administration and Site Administration pages can also be performed from the command line for Windows SharePoint Services. In addition, you can set several properties from the command line that you cannot set from the administration pages. To use the Stsadm.exe tool, you must be a member of the local Administrators group on the server computer. For more information about using the command line administration tools and setting configuration properties, see the Windows SharePoint Services Administrator's Guide.