These features, when activated or deactivated on the Web Application, will reflect on all the site collections and sites.

How to manage the features

Let’s open Central Admin of SharePoint on your machine. On your Windows desktop screen, click Start >> Administrative Tools >> SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.


You will see the screenshot given below.



We have four categories, where the events have been categorized.

  1. Contribute
  2. Manage
  3. Security
  4. Policy

In this part, we will see “Manage Features” under the "Manage” category.

Manage Features


  1. Select the Web applications and click on " Manage Features".
  2. You will see the screen below.







Features

Once you configure these features, these will reflect on all the site collections under this web application.

In this article, we saw how to manage the features of the web application. There are more features under managing the web applications which we will see in the next article.

Until then, keep reading and keep learning.