Chapter 4. Creating Site Collections

In this chapter:

"Site Creation Modes" 75

"Creating Site Collections" 77

Site Settings 83

Creating site collections is one of the basic functions performed by SharePoint administrators and users. The ease with which end users can create and customize new sites in SharePoint Products and Technologies is a key to its success and offers a major advantage over building Web sites from scratch. This chapter explores the detailed administration of site collections, particularly the different ways in which they can be created and managed.

Site Creation Modes

When planning a medium- or large-scale deployment, two critical decisions that a SharePoint administrator must make are how and by whom new sites will be created. If ...

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