Web applications management in SharePoint Server

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The following articles describe how to create and manage web applications in a SharePoint Server farm. These articles are written for farm administrators who will operate SharePoint Server. The articles also describe how to manage permissions and permission policies for a web application.

	Content	Description
	Manage permissions for a web application in SharePoint Server	Learn how to manage permissions for web applications in SharePoint Server.
	Manage permission policies for a web application in SharePoint Server	Learn how policies provide a centralized way to configure and manage a set of permissions that applies to only a subset of users or groups in a web application.
	Manage anonymous access for a web application in SharePoint Server	Learn how to manage anonymous access to sites and site collections within a web application.
	Extend claims-based web applications in SharePoint	Learn how to extend an existing claims-based SharePoint Server web application into a new zone to surface content to different types of users.
	Define managed paths in SharePoint Server	Learn how to add a managed path for a web application in SharePoint Server.
	Cache settings operations in SharePoint Server	Learn about the available caches and the settings that can be configured for the BLOB cache, cache profiles, and object cache settings in SharePoint Server.

Administration of SharePoint Server