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Web Application and Site Collection
Let's imagine there is no web application to create the site collection, and you will create the site collection directly without creating a web application,
In this case, Every site collection ...
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create New site collection with new content database using powershell
You have to create the Content Database 1st then you will be able to create new site collection.
New-SPContentDatabase -Name "database name" -DatabaseServer "database server name" -WebApplication "...
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Powershell - How to add multiple site collection admins as secondary?
If both primary and secondary owners are set, the only other way to add additional Site Collection admins is to use the New-SPUser command and include the switch parameter -SiteCollectionAdmin.
New-...
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Getting lookup values from another site in the same site collection
As Steven stated there is no way to do this OOTB but you can do it with powershell.
Get the lists from different Sites:
$targetWeb = Get-SPWeb http://sitecollection/site1/
$sourceWeb = Get-SPWeb ...
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How to change database for existing site collection in a sharepoint web application?
For this process to work, the following must be true
The destination content database must already exist.
The source content database and destination content database must be located on the same ...
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CSOM - Get root site collection URL
CSOM
Using the ClientContext, get your Site object and check its URL
SPContext.Current.Site.ServerRelativeUrl : if == "/"
JSOM
For that you can use the _spPageContextInfo variable.
To check if ...
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Deleted Site Collection is still visible in View All Site Collection in Centeral Administration
When a site collection is deleted from GUI, the deleted site collection is stored in the SPDeletedSite object to be able to restore it back within 30 days using Restore-SPDeletedSite cmdlet.
So to ...
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What is the purpose of the default site collections?
This is my best guess for each Site Collection, though I have been able to find limited official documentation.
domain.sharepoint.com
This is the top level (aka root) SharePoint Site Collection.
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best appraoch to modify a site collection url inside sharepoint 2013
Source: http://www.sharepointrelated.com/2015/03/30/change-site-collection-url-sharepoint/
$site = Get-SPSite http://servername/customer/questions
$site.Rename("http://servername/customer/...
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Rest API to get SharePoint site collection all users
The REST Endpoint URI to get all the users of a Site Collection is
<site url>/_api/Web/SiteUsers
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Sharepoint 2013 - List of Site Collection Administrator (JavaScript)
Users are not allowed to enumerate 'higher' permissions.
So have your script (which only has to run when administrators havechanged) dump the info into a public List (or formatted HTML file)
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Cannot get all site collection users using CSOM
Every site collection has its own user database. It's basically just a list at ~sitecollection/_catalogs/users. The Web.SiteUsers collection will only return users who have actually visited the site ...
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Site Collection Administrator has left the building
Ok Paul, you will need help from Share-point admins (someone with server access to the Sharepoint farm). You need someone with SharePoint admin privilege to open Central Administration and update the ...
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Sharepoint Online - Maximum number of subsites within single site collection
I tried contacting Microsoft for the same requirement but I found this question is already answered by Microsoft support team.
The reply from Microsoft Team was like
Currently, the sub site limit ...
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Modify SharePoint Online Site Collection URL
Short answer, no, not possible a without migration of some sort.
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How to get list of available custom template name using powershell script
I have answered for the same kind of query , Please find below the detail to get the available custom templates and create a sub-site based on that .
This can be achieved using power shell and CSOM ...
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Sharepoint 2013 - List of Site Collection Administrator (JavaScript)
It is possible to list all administrators of a site collection using JavaScript(REST API).
UserInformationList has the all users information of your site. You can get administrators using $filter.
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Custom URL for sharepoint Online
What @bonm014 said is true: it's not possible. The Microsoft's User Voice channel is the source for requested features and their status. Changing the tenant's name is one of the often requested ...
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Main site collection checked out to a user?
The site collection is not checked out. It is not possible to check out a site collection. What has happened is that the file Home.aspx in the SitePages library is checked out. Anyone with contribute ...
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What is the effect of granting users "Restricted Interfaces for Translation" permsion on a site
I use that 'restricted interfaces for translation' when I have people who have contribute rights to a list in a site, but don't have any rights to the site itself.
In 2010, giving a person contribute ...
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Prevent Site Collection Administrator from viewing library documents
Their is no way to block site collection administrators from viewing anything on that site collection.
You have to think different strategy i.e.
enabling auditing so that who ever access that ...
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Site Collection Vs Hubsite
Actually, the Hub site is considered a top-level site collection for other site collections to serves the flat structure, unlike the old Site collection and its subsites structure!
the Hub site has ...
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Create site collection in content database
I don't think it's possible automatically.
Unfortunately, There is no event receiver triggered when creating/ created a site collection to handle this using event receiver.
However, you can adjust ...
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SPFX and pnp/sp : How to get all sites
Using @pnp/sp framework, you can get the list of all site collections as below:
Add the below import statement:
import { sp, SearchQuery, SearchResults} from "@pnp/sp";
After that, ...
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Get-SPUser without specify a site collection
The users are stored per SiteCollection, so there will no other way as to iterate through all of them.
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create New site collection with new content database using powershell
You can use:
New-SPSite -Url $url –ContentDatabase $ContentDatabase -Name $WebsiteName –Description $WebsiteDesc -Template $Template -OwnerAlias $PrimaryLogin –OwnerEmail $PrimaryEmail
see: https://...
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SiteCollection not available after the DB was moved into a different volume/drive by DB Admin
You can detach the content database from central admin and then reattach using the correct SQLCluster Name. You dont need to delete anything.
Attach or detach content databases in SharePoint 2013
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Sharepoint Online - Maximum number of subsites within single site collection
I think 2000 subsite per site collection is just a threshold value.
There will be impact on performance if your subsite count is more than 2000.
Thats why Microsoft recommends upto 2000 subsites ...
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how to get site collection url from SharePoint Hosted App
In your App url there are various Query String Parameters as shown here. That already containts the site collection url.
The Query String paramter "SPHostUrl" will give you the site collection URl.
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