A SharePoint site collection is a hierarchical set of sites that can be managed together.
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Personal Sites site collections only being created on default.aspx
I am having problems with the self service creation when the system account's site collection is being created automatically in a customized My Site Host.
If I go to ...
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Equal Topnavigation on different Sitecollections?
I have several Sitecollections and all of them should have the exact same Topnavigationbar. Publishing Feature is activated.
Example:
On Sitecollection A the Topnavigation should show
Sitecollection ...
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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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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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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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Is there a way to move files with the SP Object model in MOSS whilst retaining meta data?
Is there a way in SharePoint 2007 to move a file from one document library to another, in the same site collection programatically? I made this post about this on StackOverflow, with a bounty not too ...
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getting error while importing a site to a sitecollection sharepoint 2007
I exported a site which have many sub sites, and then that sub sites have several sub sites, but getting following error if someone got any idea about it.
[16/07/2012 10:00:20]: Start Time: ...
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new spsite for hr.abc.com
I was wondering which answer is more correct? I picked new-spsite but my answer is marked incorrect.
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Backup-SPFarm or Backup-SPSite to backup a site collection and it's content database
Should I use Backup-SPFarm or Backup-SPSite to backup a site collection with it's content database? Dont both of them backs up with it's content database?
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Sharepoint Site to create new project
I want to create a Sharepoint site so that I may automate the creation of new site from within my site. For example, a firm has several projects. A Project Manager tries to create a new site from the ...
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Is it possible to run Content Deployment incrementally using code?
I am running some Content Deployment jobs using the code but the jobs are not run incrementally, instead they are run by exporting all the objects. Is it possible to run them incrementally using the ...
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Problem Creating Site Collection
We are getting this error when attempting to create new sitecollections based on our sitedefinition. Any ideas of what can be wrong?
Successfully applied template "STCommunitySite#0" to web at URL ...
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In SharePoint 2010 - Does SPSiteCollection.Add create the default groups?
Referring to http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointdevelopment/thread/b73dd31b-1ec9-4f44-8cb2-80b2f6796eb5
Does SharePoint 2010 create default groups when site collection is created ...
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Moving a subsite between site collections
My users have created a sub site. They have done some work to it. They have now decided that it should site in the deparment it was created but another one as they will be looking after the site going ...
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How to make Internet facing SharePoint website to cater different geographical locations?
I have a SharePoint Foundation hosting account. I want to provide SharePoint to private teams through an Internet facing site. There needs to be a selector page at the root domain where users can ...
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Nested Managed Paths
Should be an easy one for the sharepoint pros out there:
Is it possible to nest a managed path under another managed path...all the theory i know up to this point tells me to no, but so far but ...
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Display all site collections on web application home page
I have a web application in my SP 2010 farm with the url as:
http://servername
I have 3 site collections in this web application as:
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/sites/it
/sites/finance
When I browse to the url ...
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How can I tell if I have a site collection?
I'm trying to use InfoPath from my local PC, with my SharePoint 2010 site located on a remote server. I have all the admin privileges you could imaging, having built the remote server, so I should be ...
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NullReferenceException when creating new site collection
Running a SharePoint 2010 farm. Whenever I attempt to create a new site collection I get the following error "Object reference not set to instance of an object" which is generated from a generic ...
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WSS/BPOS Is there an easy way to copy site-collections?
Quite often I use site collections per calender year. They contain team sites with task lists and datawebsites(multipage meetingsites). When you copy the individual websites they do exactly what I ...
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Corrupted site collections
I ran a stsadm -o enumsites and received 2 error messages in the output. It generates the error: The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070003). I know the URL of ...
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How to replicate site collections on the same web application?
I need to create a copy of publishing(Collobaration Portal) site collection on the same web application. I can do this by using backup/restore, but the problem is when we restore the same site ...
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SharePoint 2010 Site Collection Quota - changed but not taking effect?
I have users getting the Site Collection Quota exceeded error message in SP2010. I have increased the limit in Central Admin to 80gb out of which only 5gb are being used. BUT they are still getting ...
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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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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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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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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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Is a Site Column related to a web or site collection
just going through some slides for SharePoint 2010 Developer Certification slides and it says Site Columns are related to web, but I thought they are created on site collection level, can someone ...
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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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Getting Web Template using Configuration ID
I am able to get Web template by checking its ID, but we have ten's of web configurations within a web template
so in short we have loads of web template id's with different configurations and Title.
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Get all webs with certain property value
If I have a certain number of webs within my site collection, and those web have set some property, eg. web.Properties["foo"] = "bar". I'd like to get list of all the webs which have property foo set ...
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Problems with WebApplication after Host Header name is given [closed]
I have created a Web App with Host Header and created a Site collection in it. There was no error message or any problems pertaining while creating web app or site collection but problem comes when I ...
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Get-SPSite fails to return all site collections for a content database
I have 3 content databases spread over 2 servers (A & B) called:
A1
B1
B2
I wanted to move a site collection from A1 to B1. As they are on different servers, I backed up, removed the site and ...
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Backup and Restore Sitecollection: users on target machine not existing
I backed up a sitecollection from Server A and restored that sitecollection to server B using stsadm backup and stsadm restore.
Before the backup I removed the users from the sitecollection user ...
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error 0x80070055 when provisioning a site collection with Document Center or Record Center
In QC we are getting 0x80070055 error when provisioning a site collection with web template Document Center or Record Center template.
Did some googleing and learned this error is due to dup guid in ...
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Synchronize user regional settings across site collections
We have a company web application that is divided into multiple site collections though the average user only sees this as a single "website" because they are linked with a single global navigation. ...
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Site Collection: Configure Audit Settings: Selected audited events only remain checked for a few minutes
Under Site Collection Administration -> Site Collection Audit Settings, I can enable events to audit, click OK. Then I go make changes; update a list item, delete a document, check out an item. I can ...
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Irregular behavior in SharePoint Designer based workflows
I am using SharePoint Designer 2010 to build list workflows.
However, workflows that I have built and tested are unpredictably disappearing from the list of WFs available to run in the browser UI. ...
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User Alerts Malfunctioning on only one Site Collection
There's an issue with user alerts not functioning in one site collection (on SharePoint 2010). Apparently, the alerts were working and somewhere down the line they stopped. I couldn't find out ...
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Site Collection Not Selectable in Central Administration After Moving Site Using SQL .bak File
I've inherited a SharePoint site as sql .bak file. I took the following steps to create the site:
Create a Web Application
Create a root site (no template)
Delete the default database: ...
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Locate a document (set) across site collection boundaries
I have a scenario where I am investigating mechanisms to distribute storage of documents across multiple site collections.
This is primarily due to storage considerations, best estimate is that ...
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Can I merge multiple TFS Site Collections into one?
I apologize if this question makes no sense but I'm struggling to figure out how SharePoint and TFS interact, so my terminology might be all wrong.
I'm managing a small TFS2010 deployment, a single ...
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How to display a database table in a page, based on the current Site Collection Subsite
being new to the Sharepoint scene, I was wondering what the best approach was in this situation.
I have a few customers, who all login into the Main Home site, and then get a link to their resp. ...
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Convert a basic site to a full site in SharePoint 2010?
I'm not quite sure of the best way to ask this. I have some sites that I would call basic sites (SharePoint Foundation 2010 was WSS) that have very basic functionality and then I have other sites ...
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JS/jQuery Check if on root web of root sitecollection
How is it possible to check in JS/jQuery if the user is on the root site of the root sitecollection in the webapplication? (Sharepoint 2010)
Thanks!
Example:
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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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Use a different CSS for system pages
Is there a way to apply a different CSS file to system pages in a SharePoint 2010 site collection? We don't want to modify the master page and weren't sure if there's any other solution. Thanks.
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When would you want to create a new Managed Path?
Could someone explain when or why I would want to generate a new managed path in a SharePoint Web Application?
Bismarck
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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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What is the physical path of newly created SiteCollection
I am very new to SharePoint 2010. I have created a new site Collection named "MySiteCollection",
I want to know where this "MySiteCollection" is created?
What is the physical path?
