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Creating an Enterprise Wiki

Creating an Enterprise Wiki - SharePoint Tutorial

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Creating an Enterprise Wiki

One of the site templates that's only available if you have SharePoint Server is called an enterprise wiki. Now, it can only be created as the top -level site in a new site collection. So, I'm in the Central Administration here and I'm going to create it. You may not have access to Central Administration, but I want to show you what the process would be. Simply, give it a name and a URL, select the Enterprise Wiki template, name a site collection administrator, and Create. Now, one of the reasons that it can only be created as the top-level site in a new site collection is that this thing could grow pretty large if people start to use it. By creating it as its own site collection, we get a lot more freedom about scaling it. It could be even given its own database if we wanted. The other reason for it is if you're creating an enterprise-wide Wikipedia for your own knowledge base for your organization, that really shouldn't be as a sub-site of a document workspace three levels down…

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