SharePoint® 2010 Administration: Instant Reference

Create Site Collections

Site collections can be created in a number of ways. This section covers creation of site collections using either Central Administration or PowerShell.

TIP Planning site collections is an important step and should be part of an overall governance strategy. Planning is beyond the scope of this chapter. For more information on planning, see the article “Plan Sites and Site Collections (SharePoint Server 2010)” at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263267.aspx.

Defining Managed Paths

A managed path is the site collection portion of the URL that is appended to the web application URL. Each site collection must have a unique managed path. An example of where the managed path fits in with a complete URL is shown in ...