SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide

Managing Sites from the Site Directory

Once you've created sites and site collections from the Site Directory, you can use the Directory to manage those sites. As a SharePoint administrator, you can use the Directory as your central interface to view the site collection structure, edit sites and site content, approve or reject new site creations, and delete sites.

View Site Collection Structure

There are two ways you can view the site collection structure from the Site Directory.

The first way is to click Site Map in the Site Directory. (See Figure 5-19.)

Figure 5-17. Select Web Application for Self-Service Site Creation

Notice that in Figure 5-19, you can see all of the default sites created when SharePoint was installed, as well as the Documentation Site and Software Development Site Collection created earlier in this chapter.

The second method of viewing the site collection structure from the Directory requires following these steps:

1. Click View All Site Content.

2. On the All Site Content page under Lists, click Sites.

   Warning

   There is also a Sites link under "Sites and Workplaces" on the View All Site Contents page. However, it leads to the same Sites page you viewed when you clicked Sites directly from the Site Directory. Do not confuse these two links.

Notice that in this view (Figure 5-20), you can only see the sites and site collections that were created, not the default sites. You can ...