I keep getting sandbagged by folks on the topic of the SharePoint Central Administration (SPCA) application, and there is still considerable confusion about how SPCA should be best deployed within a farm topology, how to make it “Highly Available” and “Secure”. Most of the queries are around what I do in my deployments and what recommendations I have for SPCA. Therefore this article covers these topics along with some additional discussion and general recommendations.
- Running Central Administration on more than one server in the farm.
- Correcting the Central Administration AAM Collection
- Modifying the CentralAdministrationURL Registry key.
- Providing “Highly Available” SPCA using Network Load Balancing
- Running Central Administration on the standard Port
- Running Central Administration over SSL.
- Isn’t coming in over the Public LAN a risk?
- Right, so what about Kerberos?
- Other Recommendations
SharePoint Central Administration: High Availability, Load Balancing, Security & General Recommendations
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