All site collections and sites within a web application share the same

In this article APPLIES TO: 2013 2016 2019 Subscription Edition SharePoint in Microsoft 365 A site collection is a grouping of websites under a common top-level site that have the same owner and share administration settings, for example, permissions. When you create a site collection, a top-level site is automatically created in the site collection. You can then create one or more subsites below the top-level site. For info about creating site collections in SharePoint, see Before you begin Before you create a site collection, ensure that the following prerequisites are available: • A web application in which to create the site collection. • A quota template, if you plan to define values that specify how much data can be stored in a site collection and the storage size that triggers an email alert to the site collection administrator. For more information, see • A custom managed wildcard path, if you plan to create the site collection somewhere other than under the root (/) directory or the /sites/ directory. For more information, see Create a site collection by using Central Administration You typically use the SharePoint Central Administration website to create a site collection in a stand-alone deployment. To create a site collection by using Central Administration • Verify that you have the following administrative credentials: • To create a site collection, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group on the computer that is running the SharePoint...

When you use host-named site collections, each site collection in a web application is assigned a unique DNS name. When you deploy many host-named site collections to a single web application, you increase scalability of the farm because resources are not used to support multiple application pools and web applications. SharePoint 2013 supports both host-named and path-based site collections. The following table details the differences between the two options and provides more information about host-named site collections. Table: Comparison of host-named site collections and path-based site collections Host-named site collections Path-based site collections Creating sites You can use Windows PowerShell to create host-named site collections. You cannot use Central Administration to create host-named site collections. You can use Central Administration or Windows PowerShell to create path-based site collections. URLs Each host-named site collection in a web application is assigned a unique DNS name. You can use zones to assign up to five URLs to host-named sites, including vanity URLs. All path-based site collections in a web application share the same host name (DNS name) as the web application. You can extend a web application to implement up to five zones and create different host names for each zone. However, the host name for a zone applies to all site collections within the web application. Root site collection and search A root site collection is required to crawl cont...

Hello I have two web applications. Web application1 has 100+ site collection and web application2 has 20+ site collection. I want to move all the site collection with security/permision of web application 1 to web application2. So web application2 has 120+ site collections. What is the best and safest way to do this? I also want to redirect url, if user click on webapplication1 url, it should redirect to web application2 url, how can I do this? In MOSS, there was tool Regards Hi Avikumar, Yes, as you said you can only use the Move-SPSite cmdlet to move site collections within the same Web Application. If you want to move them to another web application, you should use the Backup-SPSite / Restore-SPSite cmdlets. Here is a thread asking the same question, where I provided some insight on how to accomplish this: Kind regards, SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Consultant Blog: E-mail: Pratik I tested Batch Site Manager, it seems it is not compatibl ewith SP2010. Using powershell command as Todd mentioned in his blog, I noticed it allows only same application not in another web application. I tried following but it is giving error Move-SPSite Here we have two web application Move-SPSite : The site collection being moved and the destination content database must be within the same Web application. Any other idea to take the move all site collection from one application to another web application. Please advise

• 1 SharePoint Site Collections and Subsites • 1.1 What’s the SharePoint Site Collection? • 1.1.1 SharePoint Site Collection Limits and Recommendations • 1.2 What’s the SharePoint SubSite? • 1.2.1 SubSite Limits and Recommendations • 2 Site Collections List Per Farm • 2.1 Get All Site Collections Per Farm Using PowerShell • 2.2 How many Site Collections Per Farm? • 3 Site Collections List Per Web Application • 3.1 Get All Site Collections List Per Web Application Using Central Administration • 3.2 Get All Site Collections List Per Web Application Using PowerShell • 3.2.1 Get Site Collection Administrator Using PowerShell • 3.2.2 Get Site Collection Title Using PowerShell • 3.3 How many Site Collections Per Web Application? • 4 Site Collections List Per Content Database • 4.1 Get All Site Collections Per Content Database Using PowerShell • 4.2 How many Site Collection Per Content Database? • 4.2.1 Current number of Site Collection Per Content Database Using Central Administration • 4.2.2 Current number of Site Collection Per Content Database Using PowerShell • 4.3 Which Content Database stores the Site Collection • 5 Get Current Site Collection Size • 5.1 Get Current Site Collection Size Per Web Application • 5.2 Get Current Site Collection Size Per Content Database • 6 Web Sites List Per Web Application • 6.1 Get All Web Sites Per Web Application Using PowerShell • 6.2 How many Subsites Per Web Application? • 7 Web Sites List Per Site Collection • 7.1 Get All Web Sites Per...

SharePoint 2013 introduced a type of Site Collection called Host Named Site Collection (HNSC) which is suitable for models dependent on DNS host names in multi- tenant environments. This article draws on several sources including personal experience about HNSC. In SharePoint 2013, you can either create path-based site collections or host-named site collections. Host-named site collections enable you to assign a unique DNS name to site collections. For example, you can address them as Host-named versus Path-based site collections Host-named site collections Path-based site collections Creating sites You can use Windows PowerShell to create host-named site collections. You cannot use Central Administration to create host-named site collections. You can use Central Administration or Windows PowerShell to create path-based site collections. URLs Each host-named site collection in a web application is assigned a unique DNS name. You can use zones to assign up to five URLs to host-named sites, including vanity URLs. All path-based site collections in a web application share the same host name (DNS name) as the web application. You can extend a web application to implement up to five zones and create different host names for each zone. However, the host name for a zone applies to all site collections within the web application. Root site collection and search A root site collection is required to crawl content in a web application. A root site collection can be a site collection ...

Hi SP2013Devp. The quickest way to get a list of all the site collections (and webs within each site collection) under a specified SharePoint web application is executing the following from an administrative SharePoint PowerShell window Get-SPWebApplication | Get-SPSite -Limit ALL | Get-SPWeb -Limit ALL where is the URL of the web application. If you need this output to be more finely tuned, please provide us with more information about it, so we can give you additional guidance. Bye. Luigi Bruno MCP, MCTS, MOS, MTA Hi SP2013Devp, Follow the below article, https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/get-all-site-collections-sites-sub-sites-form-web-application-in-sharepoint-2010-using-powershell1 Thanks, Kaviya Balasubramanian | Microsoft MVP - Office Servers and Services (Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you) Hi SP2013Devp, If the reply is helpful to you, you could mark the reply as answer. Thanks for your understanding. Best regards, Sara Fan Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they helped. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact Click here to learn more. Visit the dedicated forum to share, explore and talk to experts about Microsoft Teams. Hi Luigi, Using this script I can take only site collection under web application. I want to know site collection as well all sites/subsites created under site collection. For example:- I've web application in central admin, now I want to know how many site collection, sites ...

The question I always get from clients embracing their SharePoint application is whether to create a new site or a site collection for a department, project, team site or any new site request they have. The answer really depends on a variety of factors, from the business purpose of a site to the size of an organization to other unique factors. With this blog post, I hope to clarify this often confusing concept and help organizations make the correct decision. First, let’s start off with a definition of each: SharePoint Site is a website that contains different SharePoint Web Parts like Document Library, Calendar, Task List, etc. SharePoint sites can have 1 or more pages to display content to the user. SharePoint Site Collection, just as the name implies, is a collection of SharePoint Sites. Each site collection contains a single top-level site and subsites below it. In the image above, each blue box is a separate subsite, while all of the boxes combined make upa site collection. Sites vs Site Collections: Key points to keep in mind • One keypoint to noteisthat each site collection has its unique site columns (metadata), navigation, permissions (security groups), site templates, branding, etc. Subsites, on another hand,inherit all these properties from the top-level site in a site collection. So in other words, if you setup metadata or navigation or security groups or adjust site colors and logos on Site Collection A, you have to manually repeat all of it on Site Collection...

Requirement: Backup and restore a site collection in SharePoint 2016 using PowerShell. How to backup a site collection in SharePoint 2016 using PowerShell? Although you can backup site collections from SharePoint Central Administration, as in SharePoint site collection backups may be initiated from SharePoint WFEs, and you need to be a member of a local administrator on the server and should be a farm admin. Backup SharePoint Site Collection using PowerShell Here is the PowerShell syntax to take a backup of a site collection in SharePoint 2016. It takes two mandatory parameters to identify the site collection to backup and the path to save the backup file: Backup-SPSite -Identity -Path [-Force] [-NoSiteLock] [-UseSqlSnapshot] • Force– overwrites backup file with the same name. • NoSiteLock– prevents the site from going to Read Only mode while the backup is being taken. However, if someone updates the site while backup is being created, it might lead to data corruption. • UseSQLSnapshot – A database snapshot will be taken before the backup begins, and the backup will be done off the snapshot. The advantage is that changes can be made to the site while the backup process is running without fear of corruption. The snapshot will be deleted automatically when the backup is completed. When using this method, you don’t need to specify the -NoSiteLock parameter. Backup Site Collection in SharePoint 2013 – PowerShell example: For example: To backup the “IT” site collection at “ht...

SharePoint 2013 introduced a type of Site Collection called Host Named Site Collection (HNSC) which is suitable for models dependent on DNS host names in multi- tenant environments. This article draws on several sources including personal experience about HNSC. In SharePoint 2013, you can either create path-based site collections or host-named site collections. Host-named site collections enable you to assign a unique DNS name to site collections. For example, you can address them as Host-named versus Path-based site collections Host-named site collections Path-based site collections Creating sites You can use Windows PowerShell to create host-named site collections. You cannot use Central Administration to create host-named site collections. You can use Central Administration or Windows PowerShell to create path-based site collections. URLs Each host-named site collection in a web application is assigned a unique DNS name. You can use zones to assign up to five URLs to host-named sites, including vanity URLs. All path-based site collections in a web application share the same host name (DNS name) as the web application. You can extend a web application to implement up to five zones and create different host names for each zone. However, the host name for a zone applies to all site collections within the web application. Root site collection and search A root site collection is required to crawl content in a web application. A root site collection can be a site collection ...

Requirement: Backup and restore a site collection in SharePoint 2016 using PowerShell. How to backup a site collection in SharePoint 2016 using PowerShell? Although you can backup site collections from SharePoint Central Administration, as in SharePoint site collection backups may be initiated from SharePoint WFEs, and you need to be a member of a local administrator on the server and should be a farm admin. Backup SharePoint Site Collection using PowerShell Here is the PowerShell syntax to take a backup of a site collection in SharePoint 2016. It takes two mandatory parameters to identify the site collection to backup and the path to save the backup file: Backup-SPSite -Identity -Path [-Force] [-NoSiteLock] [-UseSqlSnapshot] • Force– overwrites backup file with the same name. • NoSiteLock– prevents the site from going to Read Only mode while the backup is being taken. However, if someone updates the site while backup is being created, it might lead to data corruption. • UseSQLSnapshot – A database snapshot will be taken before the backup begins, and the backup will be done off the snapshot. The advantage is that changes can be made to the site while the backup process is running without fear of corruption. The snapshot will be deleted automatically when the backup is completed. When using this method, you don’t need to specify the -NoSiteLock parameter. Backup Site Collection in SharePoint 2013 – PowerShell example: For example: To backup the “IT” site collection at “ht...