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title: "Administration Guide"
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Welcome to the Mattermost Administration Guide. This guide is organized around what you're doing — setting the server up, getting users in, running it day to day, keeping it healthy, meeting your compliance obligations, upgrading it, and migrating data in and out.

- [Configure](/administration-guide/configure/configure-index) - System Console settings, search, email, file storage, branding, agents, and plugins.
- [Onboard users](/administration-guide/onboard/onboard-index) - Single sign-on, AD/LDAP, provisioning, and guest accounts.
- [Manage](/administration-guide/manage/admin/server-maintenance) - Access control, server operations, licensing, Cloud workspaces, and notices.
- [Monitor and troubleshoot](/administration-guide/manage/admin/monitoring-and-performance) - Metrics and dashboards, logging, health checks, support packets, and error codes.
- [Comply](/administration-guide/comply/comply-index) - Compliance export and monitoring, eDiscovery, data retention, legal hold, and audit logs.
- [Upgrade](/administration-guide/upgrade/upgrade-index) - Upgrade notes, upgrade and downgrade procedures, and post-upgrade rollout tasks.
- [Migrate](/administration-guide/manage/admin/migration) - Bulk import and export, MySQL to PostgreSQL, FIPS migration, and moving from another platform.

If you're deploying Mattermost for the first time, start with the [deployment guide](/deployment-guide/deployment-guide-index) instead.