A SharePoint site collection is a hierarchical set of sites that can be managed together.
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Restore SharePoint 2010 Site Collection to SharePoint 2013?
We are considering moving a single site collection from a SharePoint 2010 box to SharePoint 2013 to take advantage of the difference in licensing for external anonymous users.
Can you do a backup ...
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Recursive Enumeration of Sites, Subsites, and Application Templates Used
I am migrating my WSS 3.0 installation over to 2010 and then eventually to 2013 and am in need of a stsadm command that will show me a list of sites in the site collection, a list of subsites within ...
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How to find SharePoint site in IIS?
I have created multiple SharePoint sites in local Sharepoint Server (farm).
When I Open the IIS, I am not able to see any WebSite which is created in my sharepoint server.
So How can I find the ...
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How do I obtain a list of large files in a site collection?
Without jumping the gun and writing some extravagant Web Services CAML query or PowerShell script (which may be optimal here), I would like to ask if anyone knows how to obtain a list of large files ...
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How to Restore Same Site Backup in Same Content DB to create another site collection in the same web application?
I have a site backup and i want to create two site collection from that backup in one web application.when i try to restore second site collection on same web application it restrict me to do so.As ...
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How to DeActivate feature of my site?
How to DeActivate feature of my SharePoint site remotely ?
I have created .wsp package file and uploaded SandBox solution to my SharePoint site. But in my elements.xml file it has 1 mistake of ...
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Custom Permission Level Using Powershell For Subsite
I am doing the following using powershell.
I am creating a site collection with 4 subsites and 5 custom groups.
Site Collection : Parent
Child Site : One
Child Site : Two
Child Site : Three
There ...
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When should we separate a site collection into a different web application
we are planning a sharepoint topology and wondering if we should separate each department in a different web application or just a dedicated site collection.
What's the guide or best practice to ...
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Site collection title in breadcrumb
My breadcrumb is displaying my site collection title instead of my RootWeb title. How can I display the RootWeb title? Or how can I change my site collection title?
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How to create a site collection programmatically: permissions problem?
I'm encountering some problems while creating programmatically a Site Collection.. I tried in many ways, but without fortune.
First of all, I must say that the account I'm using is:
Farm ...
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Customizing the links on the sub-navigation bar in the MySiteHost
I have a separate web app for MySites. The Enterprise MySiteHost site collection was created in the root site of this web app. Specifically, the URL is http://myServerName:81 and a managed path called ...
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Merging document library from one site collection to a document library in a separate site collection
I have a document library that was set up on one site collection. Later, on a separate site collection, another document library was set up with a similar structure. I now have a need to merge the two ...
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site collection admin does not have permission to access web app
I have a SharePoint web app (let's say http:// providers), wherever I try to access this app (which only contains the root site collection) I get an "You are not authorized to view this page" IIS ...
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Organization Concept Design
Say I have an organization structured like so...
-- Root Host
---- Group A
------ Project of A as P1
--------- Sub Project of P1 as SP1
----------- Sub Project of SP1 as SSP1
----------- Sub ...
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How do I get the name of the site collection?
I want to change an image in the Quick Launch area based on the site collection. I probably can use the url and get the name through that and change the image with javascript but I think there is a ...
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Difference between Object cache and output cache
I came across couple of questions in exam dumps of 70 - 667 but bit confused if someone can explain me difference between output cache and object cache in few lines and possible scenarios we use them ...
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My permissions have changed - again!
Three colleagues and myself have Full Control of our top level site. I don't often log into our site, however, a week ago I did and noticed I no longer had rights, however, my colleagues' rights were ...
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Site vs Site Collection which to use in this situation
Wanted some opinions.....the way i have structured things at the moment on my site is as follows
1 upper level site collection -> 300 individual sites that will be accessible by our vendors (each ...
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TargetInvocationException sitecollection “no access” quota
I am getting this error:
+ CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: (:) [CheckSiteCollection], TargetInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException,CheckSiteCollection
...
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Not able to delete site collection using powershell
I am trying to delete a just created site collection but it keep giving me this error,
PS C:\Users\svc_spadmin> Remove-SPSite -Identity "http://intranet.sharepoint2010
.com/portalll/DeleteMe" ...
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Trying to create a Site Collection using PS but keep getting error
I am trying to create a site collection using powershell script but keep getting error even though I already created Managed Path I am referencing in cmdlet,
PS C:\Users\svc_spadmin> ...
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Creating a site programmatically - folder does not exist on server
I'm trying to create a site programmatically using a console application, but have been getting an exception whenever I try to add a new SPWeb "The folder that would hold URL'/sites/[sitename]' does ...
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Best way to delete a a sitecollection column
I have a site column that was created some time ago, and that column was added to a content type.
Then many lists were created using that content type.
Later they decided that field should not exist ...
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Userlanguage lost when he changes the SiteCollection/WebApplication
We have two SiteCollections (SiteCollA, SiteCollB) which are in English and have german set as an alternative language.
When a user changes the language on SiteCollA to german and then clicks on a ...
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Use a webpart throughtout the site
Is it possible to use a webpart, f.x. a list of news on all sites, f.x. in a right column?
The webpart will only be created once and then "copied" to all other sub-/sites.?
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Manage content and structure is missing from Site Actions Menu items in 2010
My menu item "Manage Content and Structure " is not present in the Site Actions Menu, after some google research i found that there are 2 features that need to be activated for this item to show up. I ...
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External user in SharePoint community site
I use SharePoint 2013.
I have a community site in my site collection.
I want to give a external user acces to that site.
I don't want to give him the right to see every topic.
How can assign him a ...
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Store cross site collection data
Is there a way to store data (strings, maybe xml) in SharePoint that can be accessible to all the site collections in a web application?
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SharePoint 2013 language
I want to be able to change my SharePoint sites to the dutch language.
They suggested i download this: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30347
But this is English and the ...
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Opening site collection with admin user to prevent access exceptions
I have a custom webservice hosted in SharePoint. Within this service, I need to at times look up sites by id. Despite running code in an SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPriviledges block, I still get Access ...
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2 SiteCollections in same web app - what is special about the root site collection?
So, I have these 2 site collections within a single web app at port 83:
Main Site Collection: /
Nested Site Collection: /sites/custom/
Again, these are 2 separate isolation boundaries.. each is ...
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How to activate content type on specific web?
I have site collection ex: http://microsoft.com/ and i got few child webs:
http://microsoft.com/news/
http://microsoft.com/somethingelse/
<Elements ...
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SharePoint Site collection
I have custom list(created using VS) where I need to add a new column. But in my site collection i got the data from restoring site collection in which new column information will not be there. Now my ...
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sharepoint 2010 site collections disappeared
We have a staging server on client's environment. It worked well for several month. But the last time I connected there I noticed that 3 of 4 site collections disappeared there from 1 Web App. I ...
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Why this error when a site collection is deleted and a new one created?
Here is the error I receive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.0
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:42:47 GMT
Connection: close
What is the problem and what can i do about it?
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How to get all SharePoint Web Applications in the Central Administration Page from code behind
How can I have the list of all existing SharePoint Web Applications and their site collections from code behind .
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Find all workflows with a certain permission setting
I have a workflow which just got broken by a network administrator changing some active directory settings for a certain group. I was able to fix the workflow once the problem had been found but there ...
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Renaming a Page Library
What is the proper way of renaming a page library from a site collection that has a different regional setting?
e.g. Dutch, changing Paginas to Pages. Swedish/Norwegian from Sider and Sidor to Pages, ...
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Site Creation using SharePoint
If you decide to move your Intranet to the SharePoint 2013, which tools do you use to design your home page?
I mean do you create Site Collection through Central Administration? If I desire to design ...
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How to create a new site collection and open it in SPD?
Using a virtual machine (Oracle VirtualBox with Windows 7 and Sharepoint Server 2010), when I create a new site-collection in SCA, I can't open it with Sharepoint Designer.
When I try, it says:
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Deleting a site having subsites?
How to delete a website which is having subsites in sharepoint 2010?
I dont like to go to down level and start up deleting?
i would like to delele site and subsites at a time?
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Site Collection Pop Quiz: _layouts vs Style Library
First, let's say I have 2 site collections within a single web app at port 80:
Main Site Collection: /
Nested Site Collection: /sites/special/
So, let's say I have a module in a ...
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How do I disable themes on a site collection?
I want to disabled themes on a site collection in SharePoint 2010 and am not sure how to go about doing so.
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Site Columns and Content Type missing
My task is the create a replication of a live site collection on a pre production server after the move none of the site collection Content type or site columns are listed.
So far I have copied the ...
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property similar to SPQuery listitemcollectionposition for spsitedataquery
I am using SPSiteDataQuery to get all matched items from all lists in site collection.
Results set is really large, so I want to limit the results to 1000 or 10K, process these items and then iterate ...
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Host-Named Site Collections configuration
I am configuring SharePoint Server 2013 for Host-Named Site Collections & creating Initial Site Collections.
Created a new Web Application to handle Host-Named Site Collections (HNSC):
...
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System Account Vs. Site Collection Administrators
I have SharePoint 2010 Server. I have put myself as a Site Collection Administrator.
Somehow someone was able to check out a document with the System Account. I, thinking that I had just as much ...
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Set-SPSite with UserAccountDirectoryPath to specific OU could be ignored by site collection
I've had the case with SharePoint 2010 site collection what was set during creation to use UserAccountDirectoryPath to specific OU. It created w/o exceptions but wasn't following the restriction ...
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Is there any granularity over what folks can access in Site Settings?
SharePoint 2010. I'd like to know if anybody knows a way to restrict what a superuser has access to with a given site or site collection's Site Settings area? I'd like to open up some resources in ...
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Can you backup a site collection structure but not include the content?
I have a very large site collection with 10,000s of documents. I want to create a copy of the site collection but not necessarily all of the content. Is there a good way to make a cop of a site ...
