MOSS 2010 Operations (1)-Web site and site collection Management

A Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 site collection is a layered web site structure consisting of a top-level Web site and all the sites under it. This top-level Web site can include multiple subsites, and each subsite can include multiple subsites, and you can set more levels as needed. Top sites and subsites allow different levels of control over the functionality and settings of the site.

Manage Site Collections

Create a site collection

A site collection is a set of Web sites that have the same owner and share administrative settings, such as permissions. When you create a site collection, a top-level Web site is automatically created in the site set. You can then create one or more subsites under the primary Web site.

A site collection must reside within a Web application. You can create a site collection based on an existing Web application, or you can create a Web application and then create a site collection within that application.

If your WEB application is for a single project or for use by a single team, you should use a single site collection to avoid the overhead of managing multiple Web sites. However, complex solutions can benefit from multiple site collections because it is easier to organize content and manage permissions for each site collection.

SharePoint provides the following categories of site templates: Collaboration, Conferencing, Enterprise, publishing, and customization. When you create a site collection, select the template that matches the action that you want the site to perform.

Prerequisites that must be met before you create a site collection:

L a Web application in which to create a site collection;

l quota template;

L Custom Managed wildcard path

Ways to create a site collection:

Create a site collection using central Administration

1. Verify that you have the following administrative credentials: to create a site collection, you must be a member of the SharePoint group "Farm Administrators" on the computer that is running the SharePoint Central Administration site.

2. On the Central Administration site, in the Application Management section, click Create Site collection.

3. On the Create Site collection page, in the Web Application section, if the Web application in which you want to create a site collection is not selected, on the Web Application menu, click Change Web Application, and then click the Web application in which you want to create a site collection.

4. In the title and Description section, type a title and description for the site collection.

5. In the Site Address section, select the path you want to use for the URL (for example, wildcard characters such as/sites/include a path or root directory (/)).

If you select the wildcard include path, you must also type the name of the site that you want to use in the URL of the Web site.

6. From the Select Template list in the template selection section, select the template you want to use for the primary site in the site collection, or click the Customize tab to create an empty Web site and then apply the template later.

7. In the Site collection Master Administrator section, type the user name (in the form domain \ username) of the user who will be the site collection administrator.

8. In the second administrator of the Site collection section, type the user name of the second administrator for the site collection.

Specifying a site collection second administrator is the best option to ensure that someone can manage a site collection when the site collection master is not available.

9. If you want to use quotas to manage the storage of a site collection, in the Quota Templates section, click the template in the Select Quota template list.

10. Click OK.

Create a site collection using Windows PowerShell

In the Windows PowerShell command:

Get-SPWebTemplate
$template　=　Get-SPWebTemplate　"STS#0"
New-SPSite　-Url　"<URL　for　the　new　site　collection>"　-OwnerAlias　"<domain\user>"　-Template　$template