A SharePoint site collection is a hierarchical set of sites that can be managed together.
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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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Site collection owners and site collection administrators. Can anyone explain the difference in plain english
Just found this on MSDN and I'm confused.
the Owners group of a site is not the same as the site collection owners, which themselves are called
site collection administrators in the Central ...
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Moving a site to a different site collection
I am looking for a C# script that will move a site with all permissions and content to another site collection. Google isn't helping me or maybe i dont know what exactly to look for.
e.g.
I have a ...
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alternative to import/export sharepoint 2007
I am trying to export a site with subsites to a new site collection but because I am using hundred of custom features, lists, master pages & relative sharepoint things, I am getting many expection ...
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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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can i have a site collection within another sitecollection
I wonder If there is any case we can have a site collection within another site collection in sharepoint 2007 and if we can have then whats the advantage and if we cant do it then why not.
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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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Error 403 Forbidden - when a site collection is locked as readonly
I got an an error 403 Forbidden when I browse a site collection that I set to readonly (locked).
MOSS 2007 without SP2.
Is it related to SP2 installation ?
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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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Site Collection Confusion Sharepoint 2007
I am bit confused with Site Collection concept in Sharepoint 2007, So when we deploy/develop a new sharepoint, do we must have to have a root site collection and then we will create sub - site ...
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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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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 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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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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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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Why am I still getting quota reached upload error after increasing the quota for a site collection?
A user was trying to upload documents to their site collection and reached the quota limit. I increased the quota for him but he is still getting the same error that the quota has been reached when he ...
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Sharepoint Sites
I am a developer and I have set up a Sharepoint test environment with WSS3 and created a few sites, lists and folders.
I am a little confused about managing Sharepoint Sites from the Sharepoint web ...
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Creating Custom Site Navigation for SharePoint 2007
I want to create Custom Site Navigation "Breadcrumb navigation" which will show where a user came from, ATM I am using default Navigation that shows where this specific web is located in the site ...
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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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How to create a site collection
I need to create a site collection so that url looks like http://hr.mycompany.com instead of http://portal.mycompany.com/hr. How do I do that?
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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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How can I get the root site collection from SPContext.Current?
With SPContext.Current I can get the current site or current web. However, I would like to get the root site collection for my current web application. I know that I can get the web application from ...
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Deleting Sharepoint Sites taking too much time
I am trying to delete few sites that have loads of sub-sites but its taking way too much time,
I tried to delete sites using "Content Structure" & tried to use this tool as well,
Tool for ...
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How can I get a count of all documents in all site collections?
And if I need to make the same count but with some field filters?
Is the best approach populate a list using SPSiteDataQuery and then make the report from that same list?
spregards
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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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how to check if a webpart already exists on a page or not
I am adding three webparts with different titles to a given page url, but I need to check if webpart is already on page or not, here is the code i am using atm to add webpart to the page.
using ...
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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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Can I link to all sites from within each site in my collection
At the moment when I land on the site root (SharePoint homepage) I see a list of all sub sites displayed in the top links bar.
When I click on a particular site, the top menu bar is replaced with the ...
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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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How to add event receivers to all the lists in a site collection?
What is the best practice around adding event receivers across all the lists in a Site Collection?
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PowerShell to iterate through all SharePoint Lists
Is it possible to iterate through all the lists in a site collections and create a folder name "Test" using PowerShell?
Fine Regards
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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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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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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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No change in v4.master or css but still getting error
Getting this error "Code blocks are not allowed in this file" when accessing http://portal.company.com/companyErecord/rcconsole.aspx
This is a brand new site collection created with Record Template. ...
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Any reason not to create a new content database for each site collection?
When creating a site collection in stsadm there are 2 commands I could use: createsite and createsiteinnewdb, where the latter creates a new content database for the site collection.
Reading around ...
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Same base URL across Site Collections
For growth and performance reasons, I need to distribute my Webs across several Site Collections.
Still, I want the URL of these Webs to appear as though they are in the same place. Here is an ...
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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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Why can the local administartor access a site collection?
I'm stumped by an access phenomenon because I am not sure how the permisssons for accessing a site collection work in this specific scenario:
Even though I shouln't be able to do so, I am accessing ...
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How to get host header on which site collection is being hosted?
For example my site collections structure is as follows:
http://testserver1.com/sites/sitecollection1
http://testserver1.com/sites/sitecollection2
http://testserver1.com/sitecollection3
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How to enable Content Query Web Part on SharePoint Server 2010 Standard?
I'm working with a new site collection in SharePoint Server 2010 Standard created using the Blank Site template. I would like to add a Content Query Web Part to one of my web part pages, however, ...
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How do I query items that are sourced in another site collection?
I have a set of site collections (call it 'Personals'). Each of these site collections has a page on the root site that wants to display a feed of 'announcements'. These 'announcements' need to be ...
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Best Implementation for MySite
I'm currently looking into adding the MySite feature to my SharePoint setup at my business, and have a few questions:
Should I make my MySite in a separate "MySite" collection away from the main ...
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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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Manage Content and Structure Custom Errors After Upgrade
I upgraded to SharePoint 2010 and now I can not get access to the content and structure section located under "Site Actions". The runtime error appears telling me that an Application error occurred on ...
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Restore-SPSite : Access Denied
Restore-SPSite : Access Denied
You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource.
This is the error I get when trying to restore a Site Collection backup from the integrated ...
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Changing a site Collection URL
When I created my site collection we called it /sites/teama. The business has changed the name of teama to teamb. How can I change the URL for our site collection.
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new install > website is not comming after adding ups
I followed microsoft step by step process on adding "user profile service app", did the very last step as well. iisreset.
Now the web application's site collection is not comming
Also, user profile ...
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Can't browse to second site collection (except locally)
I have created a new site collection in the same web application, using "Support" to give me the URL "http://someserver/sites/Support"
I can browse this locally on the server, but when I try to browse ...
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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 ...
