Configure Web application general settings (Windows SharePoint Services)
Applies To: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Topic Last Modified: 2009-03-06
Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:
You have read the topic Configure settings for a Web application (Windows SharePoint Services).
Important
At the minimum, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group to complete this procedure.
Configure general settings for a Web application
Use the following procedure to configure the general settings for a Web application. The changes that you make to the Web application by using this procedure are applied to all site collections within the Web application.
Configure general settings for a Web application by using Central Administration
On the top link bar of the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, click Application Management.
On the Application Management page, under SharePoint Web Application Management, click Web application general settings.
On the Web Application General Settings page, verify that the Web application you want is selected. If it is not, in the Web Application section, on the Web Application menu, click Change Web Application. Next, on the Select Web Application page, click the Web application for which you want to configure general settings.
After the correct Web application is selected, in the Default Time Zone section, in the Select time zone list, click the time zone to use for all sites and subsites under the Web application.
In the Default Quota Template section, in the Select quota template list, click the quota template to use as the default template for all site collections.
If there are no quota templates, you can create a template by clicking the Quota Templates link in the section description. When you specify a default template for the Web application, you can still select a different template when you create a site collection.
In the Person Name Smart Tag and Presence Settings section, under Enable Person Name smart tag and Online Status for members, select either Yes or No to determine whether to display that information for all sites under the Web application.
In the Maximum upload size section, type the maximum allowable file size.
The default maximum file size is 50 megabytes (MB). If a user tries to upload a single file or a group of files that is larger than the maximum upload size, an error message appears and the user's files are not uploaded.
For information on capacity planning for your SharePoint Products and Technologies environment, see Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environments.
In the Alerts section, under Alerts on this server are, select either On or Off to turn on or turn off alerts for all sites under this Web application.
If you turn on alerts and want to limit the number of alerts that users can create, enter a value under Maximum number of alerts that a user can create.
To allow an unlimited number of alerts, select Unlimited number.
For information about configuring alerts, see Configure alert settings for a Web application (Windows SharePoint Services).
In the RSS Settings section, under Enable RSS feeds, select either Yes or No to specify whether or not to allow RSS feeds.
In the Blog API Settings section, under Enable Blog API, select Yes to enable users to submit blog posts using a client tool, such as Microsoft Office Word 2007. To disable client tools, and only allow blog posts from within SharePoint Products and Technologies, select No.
Under Accept user name and password from the API, select either Yes or No to specify whether or not authentication should use the blog API or the currently configured authentication method.
In the Web Page Security Validation section, under Security validation is, select either On or Off to enable or disable Web page security validation.
To set the expiration time, under Security validation expires, select After, and then type the length of time to wait before the security validations expire. To prevent the validations from expiring, select Never.
In the Send User Name and Password in E-Mail section, select either Yes or No to either send or not send user names and passwords by e-mail.
Note
This feature applies only when SharePoint Products and Technologies is running in Active Directory creation mode.
In the Backward-Compatible Event Handlers section, select either On or Off to turn on or turn off backward-compatible event handlers.
When this feature is turned on, you can write code to handle events, and then you can specify the code to use for a particular document library by using the document library settings.
Note
Backward-compatible event handlers are used when a site has been upgraded to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For information about backward-compatible event handlers, see Backward-Compatible Event Handler (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107118&clcid=0x409). For information about creating an event handler, see How to: Create an Event Handler Feature (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107119&clcid=0x409).
In the Change Log section, under Delete entries from the change log, select either After or Never. If you select After, type a value for the number of days after which to remove entries from the change log. Select Never if you want entries never to be removed from the change log.
In the Recycle Bin section, under Recycle Bin Status, select either On or Off to specify whether or not the Recycle Bins of all the sites in this Web application are turned on or turned off.
Warning
If you turn off the Recycle Bins, any files that are in the Recycle Bins for any sites hosted by the Web application are deleted.
For information about configuring the Recycle Bin, see Configure Recycle Bin settings (Windows SharePoint Services).
Under Delete items in the Recycle Bin, select either After or Never.
If you select After, type the number of days to wait before emptying the Recycle Bins. If you select Never, the Recycle Bins are never automatically emptied.
Under Second stage Recycle Bin, select either Add or Off.
- If you select Add, type the percentage to add to the site's quota of Recycle Bin capacity.
The second-stage Recycle Bin stores items that end users deleted from their Recycle Bins so that the deleted items can be easily restored by the site collection administrators.
Click OK.