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Some administrative task for the web application. The Site Collection is the root site of the web site. Below the Site Collection, there can be one or more Sites. A Site Collection is a collection of SharePoint sites; i.e. a SharePoint site collection is a logical grouping of multiple SharePoint sites.
SharePoint provides a web-based space where users can upload a document to immediately be shared with other people that need to see it. Links to shared documents or collaboration spaces can also easily be sent via email, making it easy for users to be quickly directed to exactly what they want to see.
What’s the difference between a site collection and an application?
Some administrative task for the web application. The Site Collection is the root site of the web site. Below the Site Collection, there can be one or more Sites. A Site Collection is a collection of SharePoint sites; i.e. a SharePoint site collection is a logical grouping of multiple SharePoint sites.
What’s the difference between a web application and a site?
Web Application On top of the hierarchy is the web application. The SPWebApplication objects represent a SharePoint Web Application, which essentially is an IIS virtual server. Site Collection The Site Collection is the root site of the web site. There are many reasons to go with separate site collection in SharePoint.
You can scale up content databases that support a site collection. You can also scale-out a content database at the web application level to support additional site collections. A site collection can exist in only one content database, but one content database can host the content for multiple site collections.
What are the goals of site collection planning?
The main goal of site collection planning is to put a structure in place that your organization can grow in without creating unnecessary management overhead. Here is a generic model for an intranet SharePoint Server farm that meets many needs.