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Create A Site Collection in SharePoint 2013 Central Administration
Create A Site Collection in SharePoint 2013 Central Administration
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Manpreet Singh
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In this article, we will see how to create a site collection in SharePoint 2013 Central Admin. A
site collection will act like a base for all of your different sites on SharePoint. You can use it for
your organization or a public facing Website.
How to create?
Let’s open Central Admin of SharePoint on your machine. On your Windows desktop screen,
click Start >> Administrative Tools >> SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.
Configuration
1. Web Application
Choose the Web application under which you want to create a site collection.
2. Title
Provide the title of the site collection.
3. Description
Provide a description of the site collection, if required.
4. Web Site Address
Select the Website address as /sites/ or /teams/ and provide the title as your URL should
have it. You call also define the managed paths, as required by your organization.
Template selection
Select Experience Version. You can choose what kind of experience, 2010 or 2013, you
will have on the site.
Templates
Now, you can choose your template, which is based on the categories given below.
Collaboration
Under the collaboration section, we have the templates given below.
1. Team Site
2. Blog
3. Developer Site
4. Project Site
5. Community Site
Enterprise
1. Document Center
2. eDiscovery Center
3. Team Site- SharePoint Online configuration
4. Business Intelligence center
5. Compliance Policy center
6. Enterprise search Center
7. My Site Host
8. Community Portal
9. Basic Search Center
10. Visio Process Repository
Publishing
1. Publishing Portal
2. Enterprise Wiki
Custom
Here, you can choose a custom template, which you can build, which is based on your
requirement.
You should provide a specific quota to your site collection, so that it does not degrade the
performance for other site collections. As this is for our development phase, we might have
many apps and many custom connections, so we can choose the default quota, so that our
central admin has no issues.
Once you have configured, click on OK and your new collection will be created.
In this article, we saw how to create a site collection in SharePoint, using central administration.
There are more to come in regards to central administration. Until then keep reading and keep
learning.