A SharePoint site collection is a hierarchical set of sites that can be managed together.
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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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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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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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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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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 list the site collections under a given url path?
Given a path, e.g. http://sp2010/departments/, how can you get a list of site collections that are underneath it (which have been created through the central administration site)?
Basically want to ...
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Creating a site collection in Central Admin's Web Application
Is it a bad practice to create a site collection in Central Administration's web application? Since it can only be created through PowerShell (not through the UI), it makes me think there is probably ...
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Is Data Purged when a site is removed?
So I have been asked the following question:
When a site collection or one of it's web sites are deleted, is this data purged from the database, or is this data otherwise marked as deleted but kept ...
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Enable audit setting for a production site collection
Shall we recommand to have an audit settings enabled for a production site collection? if so, what are all the things that we have to consider before that?
what would be the maximum size of an ...
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How can you fix a site with duplicate (mirrored) document libraries? [closed]
I have a site with 2 document libraries that are identical. When I change one the other is updated. When I add a document to one it is added to the other. This site collection was created from a site ...
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How can I backup and restore a site collection in SP2010?
I have a sharepoint 2010 portal. I have a farm, with inside of it some site collections. One of these site collections ok. I would like to create a new site collection and restore a backup of the old ...
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No users were displayed when I try to select the administrator for a new site collection
I wanted to create a new site collection under the default application on my development environment, but when I search for users which were defined inside my development environment to assign one of ...
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MOSS 2007 authenticating users only from a single AD group
I have an AD group called "internal users" which has read-only access to the whole root site for my site collection. Everyone is fine with the access, as long as I don't move them out from this group ...
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Recurse subsites - Where user has Explicit Permissions
I have a need to recursivily display all subsites which a user only has explicit permissions to view. Trying to avoid pulling back all sites that have All Authenticated Users permissions. I found an ...
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Powershell Script to generate site collection administrators, site URL, Site Name,Members in the group named 'owners'
I have a requirement currently to generate all the Sharepoint site in a Web application with the following information:
Site URL
Site Name
Site Collection Administors : ID or name
Members in the group ...
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Root Site on New Web Application Can't be browsed to
Testing box is SharePoint 2010 Standard, single box install, local SQL. Default Web Application works fine. I've created a new web app, create a root site collection for it and no joy. I've tried / ...
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Site Collection and sites Mapped to controller and action methods on asp.net MVC
I came from an MVC architecture background and currently I am learning the architecture of SharePoint 2013.
So can I make the following assumptions:-
Creating a new site collection in SharePoint ...
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While associating workflow to list it is giving unexpected error
I have taken Site Collection Backup and restore it on different environment and created new designer workflow to associate it with list it is giving error page.
In ULSviewer it is showing "Operation ...
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“Page layouts and site templates” link/page is broken
I have created a new site collection based on a template (using c#) and everything goes great with one exception. I am unable to go to 'site settings' -> 'Page layouts and site templates'. After ...
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Is it possible to setup an email for a site colleciton versus a web application?
I manage a SP 2010 site for my corporation. I have a workflow setup on a document library which sends out emails to users upon workflow activiation. I want to change the email address from which the ...
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Site Admin account updated within UserProfile database
On occasion we have found that when we have issues with the database during backup time that on the restore the Site Administration account gets created anew and the previous one is deleted. Within ...
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Users should not be able to stop follow the startsite from my site
the intranet has a startsite that looks like this h t t p : / / dekor/
All users automaticly follow the startsite, but in their My Site -> Site's Im following they can stop follow it, I want to ...
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Cannot access to remote sitecolletion
I have created a site collection, after that added Internet Zone in Alternative mapping, but still cannot access to this site collection.
I have a suggestion to enter login/pass, but it is not ...
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Fails to create publishing site collection in scripted web application
I have a problem on my SharePoint 2013 farm. I have a script to create web applications in my farm, but when I do I cant create publishing site collections within that web application.
So, the ...
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Web Application/Site collection can't displaying Problem
I created a new web application.
I try to restore a site collection from a backup. It finished succesfully but when I type the url This page can't be displayed occurs.
I think the problem is about ...
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Tracking video viewing in website analytics
Let's say I have a page which has web part that takes URL from Youtube and show video.
I want to see how many times this video has been viewed in Site Collection Web Analytics Report. Is this ...
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Setting up Sharepoint for Corporate departments
If you have various departments like Human Resources, Operations, Marketing, etc. what is the best way to setup Sharepoint to accommodate each department?
Should each department have a subsite of ...
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Cannot change the site collection administrator - error?
I am trying to change the Site Collection administrator for a site collection, in Central Admin. under Site Collection Administrators.
When I select a new user from the lookup I get the "Error. An ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Creating a Site Collection - Get “Error in resolving user”
I have a SharePoint 2013 environment in a DEV_DOMAIN that was upgraded from SharePoint 2010
COMPANY_DOMAIN should have a trust set up with DEV_DOMAIN.
I'm logged into the site as ...
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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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Workflow pass list item through a site collection hierarchy
I have a site hierarchy like this:
p
c1
c2
I want to create a workflow, to process a list list item in c1 and under some conditions pass it to another list in c2.
How it is possible in ...
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No Content type available on site collection, even though they appear on subsites
Accessing content types on sharepoint foundation 2010 using /_layouts/mngctype.aspx (site settings>site content types) and nothing appears. When I goto a subsite within the same site collection all ...
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How to allow submission to a list without acces to the list/site that contains it
I have a list in a Site Collection ("IT Site Collection") with a Submission form built using InfoPath. Only a few people have access to the "IT Site Collection" and I would like to keep it that way. ...
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Blocking some keywords (inappropriate words) in Sharepoint 2010 Blogs comments, posts title
I figured how to block inappropriate words from sharepoint blog posts through workflow. I want to do the same when those keywords appear in posts title or comments.
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Get-SPSite Lists Our Root Site Collection Twice
On SharePoint 2010 Enterprise in a 2 Server Farm (Central Admin Server + Web Front End + SQL) SharePoint returns our Root site collections twice for each host header.
Example:
Get-SPSite -Limit all
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Proper way to get all lists of a certain type from an entire site collection regardless of current location
I'm creating a webpart that gives the user a feed of any annoucement list in the entire site collection, so they can aggregate data to a central portal.
I'm currently using the following, but can't ...
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Create new site from dropdown with webtemplates
I am newbee Sharepoint developer, so forgive me if this is a silly question. I want to create subsites on a sitecollection. I have by code limited the available webtemplates for the subsites to two ...
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why “Site Action” is hidden for Site Collection Home Page
I am a member of Owner group and if I go to any sub site of this site collection I can see tab "site actions" but I can't find it on site collection home page even tho I can go to settings using ...
