You can group SharePoint 2010 services using the SharePoint 2010 object model and a high level point of view. The Central Administration and the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application service can be grouped into Web Services.

Web Services make data and web pages available to the browser.

Relevant posts

• Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2
• SharePoint Foundation 2010 Service Applications and Services
• SharePoint Server 2010 Service Applications and Services

Resources

• Background: Service Entities in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation

What is it?

Central Administration

This service is used to publish administrative data and web pages.

If you deactivate the central administration service you can’t access the central administration using your browser.

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application

This service is used to publish data and web pages. If you deactivate this service you can’t access SharePoint web applications you created.

Availability

Both services are included in all of the SharePoint 2010 products.

Summary

These services enable you to provide or restrict access to data and web pages on every server. If you have a three-tier farm you can host the central administration on the application server and deny hosting on the web front-end server.