Creating a Site Collection

Creating a Site Collection in SharePoint Central Administration

In this exercise you will review an existing SharePoint site collection and then create a new SharePoint site collection using the SharePoint Central Administration site.

Task 1 – Explore the Central Administration site

In this task you will use the SharePoint Central Administration site to review existing site collections.

1.    Click Start | All Programs | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.
Internet Explorer starts and the SharePoint Central Administration Site appears. You will now review some of the features in this site.

2.    On the left-hand side of the screen, in the Quick Launch bar, click System Settings.
The System Settings page appears. Review the system settings available on this page.

3.    On the Quick Launch bar, click Monitoring.
The Monitoring page appears. Review the monitoring options available on this page.

4.    On the Quick Launch bar, click Application Management.
The Application Management page appears. Review the options available on this page.

5.    In the Site Collections section, click View all site collections.
A list of site collections for the selected Web Application appears.

6.    Choose http://intranet.contoso.com from the Web Application drop down.

7.    In the URL list on the left hand side of the screen click/sites/broadcast and review the site details in the right hand pane. Leave Internet Explorer running; you will use it in the next exercise.

Task 2 – Create a new site collection

In this task you will create a new site collection and browse to the newly created site. This site will be used in later exercises.

1.    On the Quick Launch bar, click Application Management.
The Application Management page appears.

2.    In the Site Collections section, click Create site collections.
The Create Site Collection page appears.

3.    In the Title field, type Contoso Sales Site

4.    In the Description field, type My first SharePoint 2010 site collection

5.    In the URL field, type http://intranet.contoso.com/sites/Lab01A

6.    In the Template Selection field,on the Collaboration tab, clickTeam Site.

7.    In the Primary Site Collection Administrator User Name field, type CONTOSO\Administrator

8.    In the Secondary Site Collection Administrator User Name field, leave the value blank.

9.    In the Quota Templatedropdown list, select the value No Quota.

Figure 1 - Site Creation Details

10.  Click OK. The new site provisioning process begins.
When the site collection provisioning process has completed a confirmation page is provided with a hyperlink to navigate to the new site.

Figure 2 - Site Creation Confirmation

11.  On the Top-Level Site Successfully Created page click the http://intranet.contoso.com/sites/Lab01A hyperlink to navigate to the new site collection.
The new site collection opens in a new window.Leave the new site collection window open; you will use it in the next exercise.

Figure 3 - Site Creation Confirmation