In this article, you will learn how to create Site Collection in SharePoint Central Admin.
When you click on the "Create Site Collection" link under "Web Application", you will land on "Create Site Collection" page. This page will let you create a new top level Site Collection in a given web application. "Create Site Collection" page’s direct link - /_admin/createsite.aspx
Site Collection is the key thing in SharePoint. Site Collection is collection of lists, libraries, sites etc., that can have multiple sites, lists, and libraries.
Site collection can only be created under a Web Application, and the subsite, only under Site Collection. A web application can host multiple site collections, while a site collection is only a part of single web application. Also, site collection can have multiple subsites but that can only be under a single site collection. The below picture shows the structure.
Image borrowed from Technet.
There are two types of site collections - Managed Path (wild card or implicit) and Host Name Site collection. We will discuss these in future articles.
In this article, we will create a team site collection for the krossfarm team.
Information Required Before begin
We need the following information before getting started.
Create a Site Collection
Let’s walk through the steps to create a site collection in the Team Web Application.
Thus we learned how to create Site collection via Central Administrator.
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