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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from  Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849681087
Pages 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Peter Serzo Peter Serzo
Profile icon Peter Serzo

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Upgrading and Configuring SharePoint 2010 Service Applications Farm Governance Site Administration Monitoring and Reporting Search Security Administration: Users and Groups Content Management Social Architecture Backup and Restore Performance Monitoring

Consuming another Farm's Service


Service applications can consume another service application. The advantage of this capability is leveraging resources that are defined and managed from a central location and distributed throughout the farm and/or farms.

Using the managed metadata service example from publishing, redundancy is reduced through reuse. The field created in one web application/site collection can be consumed in a completely separate web application/site collection. Maintenance of the content type is from a central location providing consistency and timeliness. As business and needs change, the organization can adapt quickly.

In this recipe, we will show how to consume another service application.

Getting ready

You must have local administrative permissions to the SharePoint 2010 web front-end (WFE) and have Farm Administrator privileges to Central Administration.

If you are consuming a service from another farm, a trust must be set up between farms. Refer to the Establishing a trust...

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