MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-667): Configuring Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010: Managing Web Applications

9/21/2011

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In this chapter from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-667): Configuring Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010, you will learn the procedures and settings related to web applications, and you will master important concepts including Claims Based Authentication, access mappings, and zones.

Web applications are the top component of the logical hierarchy of SharePoint content within a farm. All user access to SharePoint content is performed within the context of a web application. Although content itself is contained within site collections and stored in content databases, web applications and their associated IIS Web sites manage important functions, including authentication and SSL encryption. Web applications also scope configuration, including important settings that enforce consistent security across all site collections in the web application. In this chapter, you will learn the procedures and settings related to web applications, and you will master important concepts including Claims Based Authentication, access mappings, and zones. In Lesson 1, you will explore, in detail, the numerous settings that you can configure when you create a web application. Lesson 2 is dedicated to managing authentication. In Lesson 3, you will learn how to configure access to web applications in more complex scenarios, in which users access web applications via more than one URL.

Exam objectives in this chapter:

Configure SharePoint farms.
Manage web applications.
Manage authentication providers.

Lessons in this chapter:

Lesson 1: Configure Web Applications
Lesson 2: Configure Authentication
Lesson 3: Configure Authentication Zones and Alternate Access Mappings

Before You Begin

To complete the lessons in this chapter, you must have done the following:

Performed the practices in Chapter 1.

REAL WORLD

Dan Holme

A web application is a SharePoint component that is closely related to and dependent on—but separate from—an IIS Web site. Thrown in the mix are access mappings and zones, each of which relate to the URLs with which a web application is accessed. The tangled relationship between these components is not seamless to manage. Vague terminology and documentation make it easy for even a seasoned SharePoint veteran to make configuration mistakes that prevent access to a website. I’ve worked hard in this chapter to clarify concepts and procedures that are quite confusing for many SharePoint administrators, and I’ve centered the discussion of these concepts and procedures around the real-world scenarios you will face as you manage SharePoint web applications in your enterprise.

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