Reviewing the Scope of an Existing Site Collection

When a site collection administrator starts working with existing site collection, it is important to determine whether additional subsites are under the existing site collection. If the site collection is new, and hasn’t been configured, this will most likely be an easy task, but if the administrator is taking over a site collection that has been in use for several months or years, this can be more involved.

Site collection administrators charged with taking over an existing site collection can become familiar with the site collection by visiting the Site Settings page and clicking the Sites and Workspaces link in the Site Administration section, as shown in Figure 21.4. This will show the ...

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