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Figure 15-14 Authentication methods
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7. Click OK to close the Authentication Methods dialog box.
8. Click OK again to close the Properties dialog box.
Server Farm Configuration
Certain settings that must be made at the server or server-farm level will have a significant
impact on your Windows SharePoint Services sites. You can configure these
settings from the SharePoint Central Administration page for your server. This page
controls settings for a particular server in a server farm, and it also contains links to
other servers in the server farm so that you can configure settings for those servers
as well. Most of these settings can also be controlled from the command line, using
the Stsadm.exe tool. The following actions can be taken from the SharePoint Central
Administration page:
Setting the Administrative Group for Windows SharePoint Services
To install Windows SharePoint Services, you must be a member of the local administrators
group on the server computer. This group also gives users the permissions needed
to control settings on the Central Administration pages and to run the command-line
tool Stsadm.exe. You can also allow a specific domain group, in addition to the local
administrators group, to have administrative access to Windows SharePoint Services.
You can add users to this group rather than to the local administrators group to separate
administrative access to Windows SharePoint Services from administrative
access to the local server computer.