A SharePoint site collection is a hierarchical set of sites that can be managed together.
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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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Cross Site Collection Navigation
We are using SharePoint for our Intranet. We will have a site collection for the Intranet. Then a site collection for each department in the business. I.E. HR, IT, Finance.
We are creating a custom ...
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Renaming a Page Library
What is the proper way of renaming a page library from a site collection that has a different regional setting?
e.g. Dutch, changing Paginas to Pages. Swedish/Norwegian from Sider and Sidor to Pages, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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SharePoint 2010 Javascript Client Object Model cross site collections?
I've read some unofficial things online that using the Javascript client object model to retrieve content from other site collections is not allowed due to prevent the equivalent of "cross site ...
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How do I obtain a list of large files in a site collection?
Without jumping the gun and writing some extravagant Web Services CAML query or PowerShell script (which may be optimal here), I would like to ask if anyone knows how to obtain a list of large files ...
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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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When should we separate a site collection into a different web application
we are planning a sharepoint topology and wondering if we should separate each department in a different web application or just a dedicated site collection.
What's the guide or best practice to ...
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Remove a single user from all site collections in a web application using powershell
Is there a way I can choose to remove a single user from all site collections within a single web application using powershell. There are number of user profiles whose domain account has been blocked ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Get SPWeb by ID without Site Collection?
I have a list of SPWeb IDs and would like to open the associated SPWeb objects. However, I do not know in which Site Collection they are (I DO know that they are in the current Web Application ...
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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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Site Collection Pop Quiz: _layouts vs Style Library
First, let's say I have 2 site collections within a single web app at port 80:
Main Site Collection: /
Nested Site Collection: /sites/special/
So, let's say I have a module in a ...
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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 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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Access denied after creating site collection by using Powershell
I am using SP2013 single server dev environment. I use following scripts for creating web application and site collection. but when I browse to it, it says this site has not been shared with you. I am ...
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how to find Imported web
I exported a web from a site collection and imported it to a newly created site collection but when I try to access it, I get 404.
My new site collection is,
https://2020.develop.com/custs/newsiteco
...
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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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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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Find all workflows with a certain permission setting
I have a workflow which just got broken by a network administrator changing some active directory settings for a certain group. I was able to fix the workflow once the problem had been found but there ...
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System Account Vs. Site Collection Administrators
I have SharePoint 2010 Server. I have put myself as a Site Collection Administrator.
Somehow someone was able to check out a document with the System Account. I, thinking that I had just as much ...
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Rules of thumb for when to use a site, a subsite, or a site collection?
I am developing a company website/portal in SharePoint, and am trying to figure
out the best way to organise it into site collections, sites and subsites --
I'm confused by the terminology I think.
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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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~ in ~site/_catalogs/masterpage/m.master is ignored
I've received a WSP where the contained pages reference the master page as shown in the title. The pages are deployed to a folder under the Site (ie http://app.contoso.com/PagesFolder/welcome.aspx). ...
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Site collection title in breadcrumb
My breadcrumb is displaying my site collection title instead of my RootWeb title. How can I display the RootWeb title? Or how can I change my site collection title?
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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How to activate content type on specific web?
I have site collection ex: http://microsoft.com/ and i got few child webs:
http://microsoft.com/news/
http://microsoft.com/somethingelse/
<Elements ...
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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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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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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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cant find webapplication scoped feature anywhere
I developed a Custom Timer Job Feature using WSP Builder but for some reason I am not able to find it so that I can activate it.
I know I can activate it using stsadm but why cant I find it in Site ...
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All sites are read only, even for site administrators
Every site in the collection is now read-only. I can still change settings in the central admin site but am unsure what has changed.
This affects everyone, users with write permission, even site ...
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External content types across site collections
I have used Sharepoint designer 2010 to make SQL server tables available as external content types (and lists) for a site collection but what about across multiple site collections--can this be done?
