Chapter 6

Configuring System Settings

IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN TO:

• MANAGE CONTENT DATABASES
  • Adding a Content Database
  • Removing a Content Database
  • Configuring a Content Database
  • Moving a Content Database
• MANAGE EMAIL AND TEXT MESSAGES (SMS)
  • Configuring Incoming Email
  • Configuring Outgoing Email
  • Configuring SMS Messaging
• MANAGE SOLUTIONS
  • Managing Farm Solutions
  • Managing User Solutions
• MANAGE FEATURES
  • Activating and Deactivating Features
  • Using PowerShell to Manage Features

This chapter covers additional administrator tasks that apply to the farm or web application. Building on the introduction given in Chapter 3, “Creating and Managing Site Collections,” this chapter delves deeper into managing content databases. We’ll then cover how to configure incoming and outgoing messaging. The two sections on solutions and features cover tasks relating to the deployment and management of custom code.