A.8. Chapter 8: Site Collections and Web Applications

Create and customize a new site collection

A new site collection has separate permissions, its own Recycle Bin, its own storage quota, and its own site collection galleries. You can change the regional settings and grant someone site administrator rights on a new site collection without compromising your existing sites.

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Create a new site collection, apply a Site Quota template, and restrict the new site collection to 1GB.

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Under Central Administration's Application Management page:

  1. Go to Quota Templates, and create the new template with the 1GB restriction.

  2. Click Create Site Collection, choose a web application, and enter the appropriate settings, making sure ...

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