Administering Liferay Portal

You know how all these retailers want to advertise themselves as a "one stop shop" for whatever it is that you want? The idea is that they have so much stuff that chances are that whatever you're looking for is there. Liferay's control panel is something like this. If you want to create users, sites, organizations, configure permissions and plugins, and pretty much anything else, you'll do it with the control panel. The nice thing about the control panel is that it makes all this very easy to do. This chapter takes all the concepts you learned about Liferay in chapter 1 (sites, organizations, and more) and makes them concrete. Here, you'll learn how to create and manage every aspect of Liferay's configuration.

This chapter covers the following activities:

• Using the control panel to manage users, organizations, sites, user groups, roles, and teams

• Using the control panel to manage password policies, authentication settings, mail host names, email notifications, display settings, and monitoring

• Using the control panel to manage server administration, portal instances, plugins, and updates

Let's begin our examination of Liferay's control panel by looking at how to manage and organize users in Liferay Portal.