A SharePoint site collection is a hierarchical set of sites that can be managed together.
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Can I move a Variation root to another site collection?
Here is my problem.
When I set up the portal the requirement was simple - just one site collection. I set up the site collection under the root and added some variations. Looks something like ...
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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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Disable certain list templates
We have a specific requirement, where we have to create dedicated site collection for hosting discussion boards. How we can disable all list and library templates and level only discussions, so users ...
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Error when importing site: BLANKINTERNET#0 vs. BLANKINTERNET#2
I've been working on a SharePoint 2010 site in a development area for a while, and now I've come to export individual sites (rather than the entire site collection) so that I can import them onto my ...
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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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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 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 do you do an intelligent redirect at the sub-site and site collection level?
I need to migrate an entire site collection to another site collection. For various reasons, this process could take several days. We plan to migrate one sub-site at a time. While this process is ...
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How to best duplicate a site?
I'd like to confirm the "best practices" of what I am trying to achieve.
Currently, I have 1 SP 2010 application with 1 site that has users, (grouped appropriately) that have different permissions ...
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Unable to create site collection programmatically
This problem is somewhat related to this Creating a Site collection programmatically throws exception 0x80070005 question.
I cannot create site collections programmatically in Claims-based ...
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Deleting a SharePoint site does not delete data from content database
If I delete a SharePoint site collection, the entries for its documents are not deleted from the alldocs, alldocstreams and alldocversions table of content database.
I thought, when a site collection ...
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Why can't I access a site I've just imported when central admin says I'm a site collection administrator?
This is a slightly unusual situation. I have a MOSS 2007 farm. I do a database backup and restore to our dev farm and then do a database attach to our 2010 farm.
I'm secondary site collection ...
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Turning off Content Approval for an entire site collection - Once
I'd like to turn off Content Approval, for all libraries, (Page, Document, Images) once, at a Site Collection level and, hopefully, it will be automatically set across the entire site collection. ...
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Remove default.aspx from the root site MOSS url
When we request our root SharePoint MOSS site, we see a redirect to default.aspx. Is it possible to change this within MOSS to just show the domain name and not append default.aspx?
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How to add files manually to SharePoint site collect in readonly mode?
We have a SharePoint2010 on HTTPS with only one site collection. All users will have readonly access to the documents therefore site collect is locked to readonly. But we would like the site ...
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creating site collections using SharePoint management shell 2013
I am creating Site Collections for Testing SharePoint. I am using Host Named Site Collection to do that instead of the path based site collection addressing.
For that
Got a reference to the HNSC ...
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I am moving a site collection from one farm to another
I have been working on this for a few weeks now. I have tried many things but just can seem to get things to work correctly. I am trying to move a site collection from one farm to another. The source ...
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Remote Blob Storage and MaxSiteCollection in Sharepoint 2010
looking online I found tons of material on Remote Blob Storage so I finally realise my content "redirect" on file system.
My question is very simple: in every tutorial I found the created DB has ...
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404 Error after Deleting Content Database (With no Site Collections)?
After detaching a database in SharePoint then subsequently deleting in SQL Server I have been getting 404 Errors at my root site collection default.aspx page, and a few other random site collections ...
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How many root site collections we can create
I have a simple question just to remove my confusion. In one web application, can we create multiple root site collections ? I have 3 different custom web templates, and for each template, I want to ...
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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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How can I export to file the User Information List for a site collection?
I would like to export the User Information List to a file including the ID of each user. It doesn't matter if the solution is in C#/PowerShell/SharePoint UI.
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Why cant a Site collection owner/Site owner remove posts that a site member created in the feed? (Sharepoint 2013)
I have a site collection that have a teamsite, when a normal user posts something in the microfeed webpart the site collection administrator/site owner of the teamsite cant remove the post that the ...
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query all list items in site collection, any way to optimise this code or make it better?
I am going through all the lists in site collection, where list contains content type MvContentType, and for all list items in this list (this list only contain this content type, so all items have ...
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How to add a Custom Column to a Site programmatically
I'm programmatically creating Site Collections. The only thing I'd like to add to the newly created Site Collection are some Custom Columns that I've added manually in other examples..
The code I'm ...
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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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two site collections, but groups only available in the first
I recently created a second site collection 'within' my first/root site collection. i.e.
My primary site collection is found at:
http://mysite.com
and the second one is at:
...
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relationship between Site Collections in a web application
I have around 4 SiteCollections in a web application in Sharepoint 2007, I wonder if one site collection is for customer A, and second is for Customer B, will they be assessed using same IIS website ...
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Get root parent site of current site
Is there a way to get the root parent site, no matter how many levels deep you are in sub-sites? For example, in this structure:
- MySiteCollection
- MyRootSite
- MySubSite
- ...
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Why I cannot see my site collection from internet?
I have a site collection under /sites and I'm extending the whole web application to be mapped to an specified valid static ip address.
from a remote computer with internet access i cannot see the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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SharePoint - 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
If I want to browse to my site address i get this message: 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
this is what i see in event viewer:
The World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) did not register the URL ...
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Does Backup / Restore of a root site collection url include other site collection contents
I have a question regarding multiple site collections in a single web application. Take the following structure;
http://www.site.com (Root site collection)
http://www.site.com/sites/subsiteA (First ...
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Getting Web Template Not Found error while importing
I am importing a exported site with several sub-sites to a new Site Collection of its Own but getting following error
Start Time: 8/9/2012 9:32:31 AM.
Progress: Initializing Import.
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Display a list of subsites?
Is it possible to display a clickable, self-updating list of subsites on the top-level site?
Also, is it possible to further sort the list according to the subsite category?
if it is, how can you ...
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SharePoint 2010 People Picker Issues
I recently performed a database attach upgrade from a SharePoint 2003 system to SharePoint 2007, then up to SharePoint 2010. Everything is running well, for the most part. But one of our biggest ...
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Look & Feel - Pagelayouts and Site Templates
I recently ran into a rather unfortunate assignment. It regards the selection of pagelayouts and sitetemplates which subsites should be able to use.
As I'm supposed to change this for 20+ site ...
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Setting up RBS for 2nd Site Collection
Few days ago I follow Microsoft's article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663474.aspx) on Setting up RBS for SP2010.
It's all working fine for the Sales Site collection. Now, Legal ...
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Recommended Site Collection Size and Recycle Bin Setting
I'm working in the SharePoint Online - Dedicated environment.
Based on some documentation that I have read concerning limitations of Web Applications, Content Database sizes I've gathered the ...
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How to provide navigation with multpli site collections and site collections as sub sites?
We have split up a site with a massive amount of sub sites into some site collections and in the URL hierarchy some sub sites are site collections, i.e:
top level -> Site collection 1 | SC2 | SC3 ...
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Publishing feature in Sharepoint 2010: Groups
Someone told me a while ago that it isn't recommended to delete the groups that are created when activating the publishing feature on sitecollection-level. Anyone who has an idea why? I'd like to keep ...
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Moving large document libraries to new site collections
I have a site collection with a dozen or so document libraries in it (total size about 300GB's). The goal is to move each of these document libraries into it's own site collection (and content ...
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Unable to delete group without being site collection administrator
I have a Sharepoint Group (SPGroup1) whose owner is User1. User1 has full control over the root web site (and all its sub-sites), however it is not a site collection administrator.
When I log in as ...
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Web Apps, Site Collections and Webs
in our organisation we use wss 3.0 for out intranet. SharePoint usage has grown in recent months and the intranet itself is great. It consists of:
1 WFE;
1 SQL;
1 WebApp;
1 Root Site Collection;
We ...
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Specific content datatbase for a site collection
We have two content databases in a webapplication. We would like to have a site collection in a content database (Content_DB1) and rest of the site collection should be created in the another content ...
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Which site template to use for embedding existing applications?
I'm currently going through the SharePoint Planning and Architecture documentation, planning a SharePoint installation. I'm on the section "Determine Sites and Subsites".
One of the things suggested ...
