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What is a site collection?

What is a site collection? - SharePoint Tutorial

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What is a site collection?

So we've talked about creating different SharePoint sites, but we haven't really covered how they're organized. We're now going to explore one of the most important concepts in creating a good SharePoint infrastructure. It's something called a site collection. Site collections can make your life easier. They can make the difference between a scalable SharePoint solution and a disaster. They can stop your life becoming a constant stream of requests. They can allow SharePoint to grow and you to minimize your worry about how it's growing. Many people don't even really know what they are. Even if you have a single SharePoint site, whatever it is, a team site, a Document Workspace, or anything else, you have a site collection. Every SharePoint site is in a site collection. The first site is referred to as the top level site in that site collection. It doesn't mean it's magic, just means it was first. This could have been a team site, this could have been a blank site, could have been a…

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