# Administration Guide

Are you in charge of managing Metabase for your organization? Then you're in the right spot. You are the chosen one.

## Admin overview

Here's an [Admin overview](/learn/administration/guide.html) that gives you a map of the territory. The article is part of a larger [course on Administration](/learn/administration).

## Installing Metabase

See [how to install Metabase](../operations-guide/installing-metabase.md).

## Getting things set up

- [Connecting Metabase to databases in your organization](01-managing-databases.md)
- [Enabling features that send email (SMTP)](02-setting-up-email.md)
- [Setting up Slack integration](09-setting-up-slack.md)
- [Configuring settings](08-configuration-settings.md)
- [Setting formatting defaults](19-formatting-settings.md)
- [Changing localization settings](localization.md)
- [Caching query results](14-caching.md)
- [Customizing your map settings](20-custom-maps.md)
- [SSH tunneling in Metabase](ssh-tunnel-for-database-connections.md)
- [Securing database connections using an SSL certificate](secure-database-connections-with-ssl-certificates.md)

## Curating your data

- [Editing your database metadata](03-metadata-editing.md)
- [Creating segments and metrics](07-segments-and-metrics.md)

## Adding and managing users

- [Managing user accounts](04-managing-users.md)
- [Authenticating with Google Sign-In or LDAP](10-single-sign-on.md)

## Setting permissions and access

- [Permissions overview](05-setting-permissions.md)
- [Setting data permissions](data-permissions.md)
- [Creating and managing collections](06-collections.md)
- [General permissions](general-permissions.md)

## Embedding and sharing with public links

- [Sharing dashboards and questions with public links](12-public-links.md)
- [Embedding Metabase in other Applications](13-embedding.md)