SharePoint 2010 Site Collection Tutorial


Learn how to create a Site Collection in SharePoint 2010


A SharePoint 2010 Site Collection can be viewed as a silo to isolate content from other site collections for security, logical, or any criteria you determine. Site Collections are containers for a collection of web sites. Use a Site Collection for security reasons, sandboxed solutions, or simply to organize your SharePoint content.

  1. From Central Administration, click Create site collections
  2. Assign a Title (required)
  3. Assign a description (optional)
  4. Complete the URL to the new site
  5. Assign a Site Collection Administrator
  6. Click OK

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