SiteCollection in Sharepoint 2013

 SiteCollection  in Sharepoint 2013

A site collection is a logical container that holds a set of SharePoint sites hosted in a web application. Whenever you work in SharePoint and you want to publish a site, regardless of whether it’s an Internet, intranet, or extranet solution, you will have at least one web application with one site collection, made of one site.

To create a new site collection, you need a web application, which you can create by selecting the Manage Web Applications menu item from the SPCA home page, or by using the corresponding PowerShell command.

Every site collection must have at least one site collection administrator, but it can have more than one. Thus, when creating a new site collection, you need to designate a primary site collection administrator and, optionally, a secondary one. After having created a site collection, you will be able to add as many site collection administrators as you like. A site collection administrator has the rights to create, update, or delete any site contained in a site collection. The administrator also has full rights to administer content within those sites.


Following are the five main functional groups of SharePoint 2013 templates:


Collaboration These are sites whose structure has been designed to facilitate collaboration. The Collaboration group includes the following templates: Team Site, Blank Site,Document Workspace, Blog, Group Work Site, Developer Site, Project Site, Community Site, and Visio Process Repository.

Meetings This group contains templates for sites related to meetings and meeting organization. The available templates are Basic Meeting Workspace, Blank Meeting Workspace, Decision Meeting Workspace, Social Meeting Workspace, and Multipage Meeting Workspace.

Enterprise These templates target enterprise-level needs in the areas of document management, policies, and so on. They include Document Center, Discover Center, Records Center, Business Intelligence Center, Enterprise Search Center, My Site Host, Community Portal, and Basic Search Center.

Publishing This group corresponds to sites intended for web-publishing purposes. The available templates are Publishing Portal, Enterprise Wiki, and Product Catalog.


Custom This is where you can develop your own site templates. Also in this group is a list of all the available custom templates, if any exist.

Figure  shows the home page of a site collection created by using the Team Site template of SharePoint 2013.