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Figure 8: Application Management
The key limitation of the SSP architecture was that it was configured by using a set of
services, and all Web applications associated with the SSP bore the overhead of all the
services even if they weren’t being used. To change the service configuration for a
particular Web application, a new SSP would have to be created. The service application
architecture allows a set of services to be associated with a given Web application and a
different set of services to be associated with another Web application. Also, the same
service application can be configured differently in different Web applications; therefore,
Web sites can be configured to use only the services that are needed, rather than the
entire bank of services. Similar to the SSP model in Office SharePoint Server 2007, a
single set of services can be shared by all sites in a farm if this is a requirement. The
figure below shows the Manage Service Applications page ribbon.
Figure 9: Service Application Management user interface