Something I've gotten frustrated with at times is that the new Central Administration landing page seems to be missing a lot of the links that I use on a regular basis. For instance, under the "Application Management" heading, there's a link to create a new Site Collection, but not delete one. (Often times, if I'm testing out the deployment of my solutions, I need to wipe away the Site Collection and create another one from scratch.) It's annoying to have to click on the link to the Application Management page.

 

Well, as someone who can be woefully ignorant of my surroundings, I just noticed today that they have provided a handy Web Part on the right side of the Central Administration homepage where you can add your own list of links to your most frequently used pages. How helpful! For those of you who also have missed this great little help, I thought I'd pass it along.