5.4. Summary

In this chapter, you learned the following:

• After the initial installation of MOSS, there are three final steps that you must do to prepare the new SharePoint server. They are referred to as "administrator tasks."

• When these tasks are completed, you will see a new list of administrative tasks.

• Not all of these tasks in the new list must be completed, but be sure to configure outgoing e-mail settings and schedule the indexing of SharePoint's databases.

• The Central Administration tool is organized into two pages: Operations and Application Management.

• Enable incoming e-mail settings if SharePoint should be able to accept incoming e-mail.

• Configure User Profile import if you want SharePoint to store user properties.

• Define a link to the portal site before you start creating all My Sites.

• Create the records center using a separate web application or a separate SharePoint server.

• In order to enable creation of My Sites, the user account used by the application pool hosting the Central Administration tool must be a member of the local Administrators group on the SharePoint server.

• Be sure to use the Service Account area of the Operations page when you need to update a service account; for example, for an application pool or a SharePoint service.

• Do not forget to install antivirus programs that work directly with SharePoint's database!

• Single Sign-On is used by programmers and applications to get access to external data sources.

• Use information management policy settings, to get full control over documents, during their lifetime.

• Granting access to the MOSS site is done exactly as in WSS; the difference is that MOSS has more preconfigured SharePoint Groups.

• Use the Master Site Directory Setting to ensure that all new top sites can be listed in the master site directory.

• SharePoint has a feature that scans for broken site links in the master site directory.

• There are a number of configuration pages related to InfoPath Forms Services; make sure that you know how to use them, to get the most out of the Forms Service.

• Anonymous access in MOSS is configured exactly as in WSS sites — be sure that you understand how this works before opening a site to anonymous access. Read more about this in Chapter 3.

In the next chapter, you learn more about creating web sites.