I’m sure there are a lot of things that were fixed and added with the latest TR release, but the two that stick out the most for me so far are a couple of IT Pro related features that I just love:
Web application list
Site collection list
Both of these are available in Central Administration on the Application Management page/tab. Both are simplistic, but LONG overdue in this and the previous version of SharePoint.
You could always find the list of web applications by going to any of the web application managment pages and selecting the current application, but that’s a pain. I’ve always wanted a straight out list.
Getting a list of the site collections is even more useful to an administrator. Until now we had to rely on 3rd party apps, the STSADM command or database calls. All of which should be unneccesary with how easily it should be to get the information we’re looking for. Now finally its available with these two simple pages
Check them out!