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Creating a new site collection

Creating a new site collection - SharePoint Tutorial

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Creating a new site collection

You need to have administrative permissions on your SharePoint server to create a new site collection. I'm going to show you briefly how to do this just so you know where it is. We're in Central Administration. In Application Management you'll see a link to create site collections. You can create more then one site collection, within the same web application. But you'll want to know what web application you're using. If you need to change web applications, Choose Change Web application to go to the proper page, and pick up your web application. If you need to create a new one, click the New Web Application page, things are much more complex there. And the title of your site collection is displayed on every page in the top level site. So this is going to be something like, inside manufacturing retail sales, fulfillment, whatever the section of sites are that you would like to create a new collection for. This where you'll put them. It's a good thing to include a description. So, lets…

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