Published: May 12, 2010

The articles in this section describe how to create and manage Web applications in a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 server farm. These articles are written for farm administrators who will operate SharePoint Server 2010. The articles also describe how to configure cache settings and how to manage permissions and permission policies for a Web application.

In this section:

• Create a Web application (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  This article describes how to create a Web application.
  
  
• Configure settings for a Web application (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  After you create a Web application, you will most likely want to customize it. This article describes the available settings that you can configure for a Web application.
  
  
• Cache settings operations (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  This article describes the BLOB cache, page output cache profiles, and the object cache.
  
  
• Extend a Web application (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  If you want to use separate IIS Web sites to expose the same content to users, you can extend an existing Web application. This article describes how to extend a Web application.
  
  
• Unextend a Web application (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  This article describes how to unextend a Web application.
  
  
• Delete a Web application (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  This article describes how to delete a Web application.
  
  
• View site collections in a Web application (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  You can view a list of site collections in a Web application to find information about the URL, title, description, primary site collection administrator, and other data for each site collection in the Web application. This article describes how to view site collections.
  
  
• Manage permissions for a Web application (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  This article describes how to manage permissions for a Web application.
  
  
• Manage permission policies for a Web application (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  This article describes how to manage permission policies for a Web application.
  
  

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