I Installed Sharepoint.....Now what......Administer sharepoint centrally.....

Now that you have sharepoint right in front of you you must be going mad and crazy about sites and applications and templates and what not.Also impatiently waiting for next steps.Chill friends I will tell you what next and it is really click next next save or finish in sharepoint for creating sites or web applications but before that you must do few common and required administration and configuration tasks.Once you login to machine where sharepoint is installed as an administrator obviously first go to start-> All Programs->Sharepoint Central Administration 3.0 on moss 2007\win2k3 setup.It will open Ready to use web interface to create and manage web applications in IE.Since you logged in as administrator you are authorised to see this interface.First thing you will notice is few tasks are assigned to you since you are by default farm administrator now.What are these tasks and how to perform each one we will discuss one by one.But rest assured you don't need all of them completed or configured readily now.Relax.
What you must remember is this central admin tool and its url.As you will need this to manage anything and everything in a farm to be specific sharepoint farm in object model its refereed as SPFarm
What appears in central administration is nicely and shortly explained here.While this article says what all we can do using central administration is shown in this quick start.Following Video Will give you overview of central administration



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