© Vlad Catrinescu and Trevor Seward 2016

Vlad Catrinescu and Trevor Seward, Deploying SharePoint 2016, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1999-7_13

13. Creating Web Applications and Site Collections

Vlad Catrinescu and Trevor Seward2

(1)Greenfield Park, Québec, Canada

(2)Sultan, Washington, USA

In previous chapters, we have learned how to create Service Applications in order to enable additional functionality for our users. In this chapter, we will learn how to create Web Applications and Path-based as well as Host Named Site Collections, and how to customize Alternate Access Mappings, create Content Databases for our Site Collections, and enable Fast Site Collection Creation, a new feature in SharePoint Server 2016.

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