Manage service applications (SharePoint Server 2010)

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes a set of service applications that you can use to share services across Web applications. In some cases, you can also share service applications across farms. You can manage service applications by using Central Administration or by using Windows PowerShell 2.0.

The following articles in this section provide general instructions for service applications:

• Share service applications across farms (SharePoint Server 2010)

  In SharePoint Server 2010, you can share service applications across farms. This article describes how to establish trust between farms, publish a service application, and connect to a published service application in a remote farm.

• Add or remove a service application connection to a Web application (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to configure a service application connection, or proxy, to a Web application. A service application can be accessed by users only by way of its connection to a Web application. By default, all service applications are part of the default connection group.

• Restrict or enable access to a service application (SharePoint Server 2010)

  By default, all service applications on the local farm are available to all Web applications on the local farm. However, you can restrict access to a service application so that it is available to only specified Web applications. This article describes how to restrict or enable access to a service application.

• Assign or remove administrators to a service application (SharePoint Server 2010)

  In SharePoint Server 2010, you can assign additional administrators to a service application. This article describes how to do this.

• Delete a service application (SharePoint Server 2010)

  You can delete a service application that is no longer being used. This article contains instructions for doing this.

• Enable URL filtering for Web Analytics (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to enable and configure URL filtering for Web Analytics, and provides information about how the SharePoint Server 2010 hotfix package (wasrvwfe-x-none.msp) adds URL filtering functionality to the Web Analytics service application, allowing farm administrators to specify the site collections that will be processed by Web Analytics.

Individual service applications have specific instructions for their creation, configuration, and management. The following table lists articles that describe how to create, configure, and manage specific service applications.

See Also

Concepts

About service applications and services (SharePoint Server 2010)
Services architecture planning (SharePoint Server 2010)