After you enter the user information and select a role, click Add User to submit the page and add the user. You can also customize a role by adding or removing tasks that a role can perform. For example, you can add a task typically reserved for a higher role or remove a task so that only the Administrator can perform that particular function.
To customize a role, open the Site Settings page and click Site Administration. When you customize roles and configure Web Discussions and Subscriptions, you do so for the entire server and all subwebs, so be careful when you change the default settings. SharePoint stores these settings and all SharePoint Team Services content and documents in the MSDE or SQL Server database that supports the SharePoint site.
Analyzing Server Health and Site Use
The root Site Administration page also lets you configure server health and site-use analysis settings. Click Change server health settings to turn the server health feature on or off and specify how often server health checks should occur. You can specify daily, weekly, and monthly checks, and you can choose a specific hour of the day for each selected period. Turning on the server health feature lets SharePoint Team Services and FrontPage Server Extensions perform the following functions:
- verify existence of Web sites—check for subwebs on a root Web.
- check role configuration—check that user role settings are enforceable and check for problems with the role. Checks include ensuring that users' assigned roles exist, that a role for the anonymous user exists, and that users in a list have a matching user account.
- reapply file system security—
check user and role permissions created for the Web site and apply those settings to NTFS. Note that if you manually check the NTFS file or directory security, you will see the OWS—user role groups that SharePoint Team Services added.
- tighten security—check that all necessary Web site files and directories are present and that only users with the proper permissions have access.
- check anonymous access—check the anonymous user access rights for the site and all subwebs to make sure that anonymous users don't have rights they shouldn't have.
Finally, SharePoint Team Services and FrontPage Server Extensions let you track activity on your site—including the total hits on a site, the top page by hits, browser types, and the top referring site—and generate reports. These reports come from the plaintext log files that IIS generates, so you must configure the WWW Service log format for the data you want to capture. You can configure the WWW Service to use the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Extended format, which provides the most detailed results, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) common log format, or the IIS format.
Now that you've configured the basic SharePoint Team Services settings, you can begin to add content to your site and alter page layout and appearance. SharePoint Team Services lets you use an HTML editor such as FrontPage 2002 to make modifications, and you can further customize the pages and add graphics to match a common theme or corporate appearance. You'll find that you can easily customize the product to meet the changing collaboration needs of your department or workgroup.