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Site collections: The basics - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint 2013 Essential Training
Site collections: The basics
Every SharePoint site is part of a site collection. A site collection is a container that holds other sites. At the top of the site collection, there's one site called a team site, and it's not unusual that there's actually nothing in the team site here. But that all of the other sites fall underneath it. So, it's purpose is simply to hold the collection space. This top level site then has sub sites, a team site, a project site, another team site. In the case of our site, the No Obstacles Internet, what we see is, Inside No Obstacles. And we actually have some document libraries there at the top of our site collection, this very first site. But then, we have a site called Inside Sport, another site for our Employee Self Service that we've been using. And a site that we'll be creating in a bit for the Inside Home group. Now, in many smaller organizations, there's only one site collection. And all of the other sites fall inside of it. But if you have a larger organization or if you have…
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Site collections: The basics5m 4s
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Creating a new site collection4m
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Creating a new team site6m 51s
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Branding your site3m 30s
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Changing the look of your site6m 39s
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Editing site navigation3m 7s
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Saving a team site as a template5m 51s
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Searching in SharePoint7m 41s
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Improving search with query rules9m 4s
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Using project sites to manage work6m 20s
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