Recovering Sites and Site Collections
The philosophy behind SharePoint has always been to delegate decisions to users, like with versioning. Deleting a whole site collection and all its content is quite easy for the owner of that site collection to do. From a user point of view, after clicking the option to delete a site collection, the owner is presented with the message shown in Figure 8-9, which warns them of the ramifications. Even after they click Delete, another prompt appears to ensure they want to do this (see Figure 8-10). But occasionally mistakes are made.
Figure 8-9. Deleting a site collection: first chance to turn back
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