SharePoint/Create a Site

Prerequisites

• Learn about the overview of Sites and Site Collections.
  • Refer to Overview of Sharepoint's components.

• The account used for configuration must have appropriate permissions to manage SharePoint Server.

Cerate a Site Collection

Log in to the Central Administration, and navigate to Application Management.

Click Create site collections to create a new top-level site.

Select a Web Application in which you want to create the site collection.

Enter a title and description for this site collection.

Select a path to use for your URL, the root directory is not recommended.

Select a template that you want to use for the site.

Specify a site collection administrator, and add a secondary administrator if needed.

Select a quota template if needed.

Click OK to create a site collection, this will take a while.

After creation, you can click the URL to visit the site.

Log in with a site collection administrator account.

Next step

• Share a site with users
  • Grant users access to this site collection.