SharePoint 2016 Central Admin Functionalities summary
  • Application management
    1. Create/edit/delete web application
    2. Create/edit/delete site collection
    3. Assign site collection primary and secondary administrator
    4. Create or extend Web application
    5. Remove SharePoint from IIS Web site
    6. Delete Web application
    7. Define managed paths
    8. Web application outgoing e-mail settings
    9. Web application general settings
    10. Content databases
    11. Manage Web application features
    12. Web application list
  • SharePoint Site Management
    1. Create site collection
    2. Delete site collection
    3. Site use confirmation and deletion
    4. Quota templates
    5. Site collection quotas and locks
    6. Site collection administrators
    7. Site collection list
  • Monitoring
    1. Check current running job status
    2. Check timer job status
    3. Check health check report
      1. Diagnostic logging
      2. Usage analysis processing
      3. Information management
      4. policy usage reports
  • Security
    1. Management of administrator accounts
    2. Configuration and management of service accounts.
      1. Service accounts
      2. Information Rights Management
      3. Antivirus
      4. Blocked file types
      5. Update farm administrator’s group
      6. Information management policy configuration
      7. Manage settings for single sign-on
    3. Management of password change settings and policies.
    4. Specifications of authentication providers, trusted identity providers.
    5. Antivirus settings.
    6. Blocked file types.
    7. Self-service security.
    8. Secure token services.
  • General application settings
  • System settings
  • Backup and restore
    1. Perform a backup
    2. Backup and restore history
    3. Restore from backup
    4. Backup and restore job status
  • Upgrade and migration
    1. Site content upgrade status
    2. Finalize upgrade
    3. Content Management Server Migration
    4. Enable Enterprise Features
    5. Enable features on existing sites
    6. Convert License Type
  • Configuration wizard
  • Data Configuration
    1. Default database server
    2. Data retrieval service
  • Content Deployment
    1. Content Deployment Paths and Jobs
    2. Content Deployment Settings
    3. Check deployment of specific content
  • Apps
    1. Deploy and un-deploy SharePoint App