Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Administering Site Collections and Sites

Administration of individual site collections is different from administration of the backend of SharePoint. Indeed, Microsoft broke these two administrative tasks into two areas to enable the site collections to be administered by the people “closer to the ground” with SharePoint, typically the ones who use it on a regular basis for document management and collaboration.

These administrators have the ability to perform their own set of administration that affects only their specific site collection. The administrative tasks that they can perform are outlined in this section of the chapter, and apply to site collections created within SharePoint Foundation or full SharePoint Server 2010. These sets of ...