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Creating a site collection - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint 2010 Essential Training
Creating a site collection
Creating a site collection is actually a very simple task, but you typically don't have access to it. I am in a very limited location called SharePoint Central Administration. This is a website for managing the SharePoint farm itself and typically you only have access to this if you're what's called a farm administrator. If you do have access to this site, that's terrific. But if not, I just want to take you through the process so you understand what it is someone would have to do to make a new site collection. I am in the section called Application Management. There is a whole bunch of options here, but I have, as you might see here, this Site Collections area where I have an option to create a site collection. Now, creating a site collection itself is kind of a bit of an anticlimax. To create a site collection, you really just have to tell it what is the top level site in that site collection. In this case, I'm double-checking that I'm going to create this site collection in the…