A SharePoint site collection is a hierarchical set of sites that can be managed together.
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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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How to activate feature using powershell script?
I need to activate specific feature to all site collection which is inside the particular web application using powershell script?
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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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Is there a way to keep track of all changes in a SharePoint site collection?
My company is soon rolling out a SharePoint-based intranet.
During the first few weeks of the rollout I would like to keep close track of all the content that is added and edited on the sites.
Is ...
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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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Restore-SPSite reports “No content databases are available for this operation…”
I've run a site collection backup using Backup-SPSite. I then deleted the Site Collection using CA. Then tried to restore is using Restore-SPSite. Got the error "No content databases are available ...
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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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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 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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How do I navigate back form a subsite to the site collection
I've created a site collection and under it I created a site (both with the Team Site template).
The site collection has a link to the site but the site doesn't seem to have any back link to its ...
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Translation for non-supported site collection templates
I installed Polish language pack for Sharepoint, but unfortunately blog sites are not supported. Is there any way to provide translations for particular site collection templates, which are not ...
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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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New Site Collection isn't secure (i.e. SSL) like our other
I created a web app (sharepoint2.xyz.com), then extended it (AAM) to sharepoint.xyz.com. I also created a Site Collection called sharepoint2.xyz.com with our subsites under that (to mimic our 2007 ...
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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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Dev instance of SP2010 is done - How do I move site collections?
I prepared dev from scratch (1 app, 1wfe, 1 db server). I would like to import all of the site collection from production to dev. Some of the site collection databases are large (like 30gb). Certainly ...
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What is the difference between site collection subsites and rootweb subsites?
If I create site collection at http://server/sitecollection and if i create 3 sites:
http://server/sitecollection/site1
http://server/sitecollection/site2
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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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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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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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Site collection size > 300GB SharePoint 2010
The image url is:
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/getfile/57642/
I believe you are understanding the site collections and the sites from the above picture. [All site collections are using their ...
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Single Library Storage for multiple Site collections
We are building portal based on SP 2010 platform which will mainly be a e-learnig site with SharePointLearning Kit. There will be ca. 100 school site collections. We will also have about 23 gigabytes ...
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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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Backup and Restore SharePoint 2010 SiteCollections
I am getting an error "Backup version is different" while restoring SiteCollections from one web application to another on the same SharePoint server farm. Following are the steps I was executing when ...
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Finding pages that are pending approval across an entire site collection
I am in the process of creating an administrative view which allows our intranet authors to view all the pages across the entire site collection that are awaiting their approval.
As our site ...
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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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Why can't I create site collections in some CDBs?
I currently have my SharePoint 2010 server set up with twelve content databases. In each is or should be one site collection at the moment, but as I went through to set up each one five of them gave ...
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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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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 do you fix site collection permissions when only site collection admins can access the site?
I have a site collection and the only way for people to access the site is by adding them to the site collection administrators group. I have several SharePoint Groups setup with varying permission ...
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How to get full home page address of a site collection?
When I use SPContext.Current.Site.Url it returns "http://servername"
I need the full homepage URL which is "http://servername/SitePages/Home.aspx"
Does anyone know how to get this programmatically?
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Reusable content across site collection for rich text editor
Is it possible to have access to the root site collection's Reusable Content list in all its web sites? If not, how do you add the list to a web site? I'm trying to put some common UI elements in this ...
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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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Iterate Site Collection Administrators across web app
How can I find out all the sites where the user is a primary site collection administrator or a secondary site collection administrator.
We have around 200+ site collections and growing and hence ...
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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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User groups at the site level
I have a created two side by side sites, A and B, and wanted to create a group in site A and another unrelated group in site B.
But then discovered that in the page "A > People and Groups > All ...
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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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How to move Site Collection to different Path in same Web Application?
I know the process involves backing up the site collection. And restoring it afterwards.
I'm looking for specific steps on the restore process.
I have a site collection at the root of a web ...
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Best way to migrate a site collection from Enterprise to Foundation?
I have a site collection on an Enterprise server that I need to migrate to a server that only has Foundation on it. I have disabled all Enterprise-only features, and attempted a backup and restore, ...
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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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Search results page URL not showing current site
I'm working on a custom search based, by copying osssearchresults.aspx and making a few changes.
My Publishing Site with workflow sitecollection has a few sites at the root, for different languages ...
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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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Newly created site collection only available on one WFE
In our farm setup we have multiple WFE servers, these are server 21 and server 31.
When i create a new web application to run on port 84, and then i create a new site collection, i can access this ...
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List all Site Collections in a Farm
I want to be able to see the number, names, url of all site collections there are in a given farm. Would there be a powershell command to do that?
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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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Is it possible to create Site Collection such that URL should not have “/sites” in SharePoint foundation 2010?
I want to create Site Collection such that Site collection should not contain "/sites" in its URL(Except root Site Collection) in SharePoint Foundation 2010.
Is it possible to do it?
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When to choose web application vs SiteCollection vs Subsite?
In SharePoint you have the following types of objects:
Web application
(1) A container in a configuration database that stores administrative
settings and entry-point URLs for site collections. ...
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Automatically turning on a feature on a new site collection
Is it possible to turn on a custom feature atomically when you create a new site collection? I have a branding feature that I want to be turned on by default for each site collection made.
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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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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 ...
