Manage Web Applications In SharePoint 2013 Central Administration

Here, we will see how the Central Admin controls management of the web application. I would recommend you read the other articles of this series.

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

Run it as an administrator to have elevated privileges.
You will see the screenshot given below.
Central Admin is configured under the categories given below.
Click on Application Management.
Go to Web Applications >> Manage web applications.
You will see the screen, given below.
Here, we can see various options to work with the web applications.
Let’s see them from left to right in different parts of the article.

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

Contribute
Manage
Security
Policy

In this part, we will see “Outgoing E-mail” under "Manage” category.

Outgoing E-mail

SharePoint

Select the Web Application and click on "Outgoing Email".
You will see the screen below.

Outbound SMTP Server
Provide an SMTP Server address.
From Address
Provide a From address.
Reply-to address
Provide a reply-to address.
Character set
Choose one among the character sets from the list below.

Once you configure these settings, the web application will use them for sending notifications, alerts, configuring the workflows, and other web related invitations.

In this part of managing the web application, we saw how to manage the outgoing email 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.