SharePoint Basics : Part 3

Overview of sites and site collections in SharePoint Server ...

SharePoint Site Structure


SharePoint Farm

  • A SharePoint farm is a collection of one or more SharePoint servers or SQL servers.
  • A SharePoint farm is a logical grouping of SharePoint servers that share common resources like apps. 
  • A Farm has one server running the central administration site and many servers for many SharePoint sites.
  • Each farm has its own central configuration database managed through central administration site.
What is SharePoint farm? - Definition from WhatIs.com

Web Application

  • Container which may contain many site collection in it, at least one site collection is by default
  • Web Applications are top-level containers for content in a SharePoint farm.
  • When we are creating web app we create an IIS website by default.
  • Can only be created in the Central Admin UI (or via the STSADM tools etc.)
  • Each web application by default contains single content database.

For E.g. http://somesite.yourcompany.com is the web app and top level domain.

Create Web Application in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell ...

3. Site Collection

How to Create a Blank Site Collection and a Blank Sub Site on ...

  • A site collection is grouping of websites under a common top level site having same owner and permissions.
  • Site collection is a top-level site that contains sub sites.
  • Each Site collection has exactly 1 ‘Top Level Site’.
  • The top level site collection contains other site collections under it

To create a site collection: Go to SharePoint 2013 Central Administration>Application Management>Create site collections>Change Web Application>Title and Description>Web Site Address>Template Selection>Site Collection Administrator (domain\username)

4. Sub-sites


  • Sub sites are created under a site collection to distribute the data according to the hierarchy.
  • A SharePoint Site is a collection of pages, lists, libraries, apps, configurations, features, content types, and sub-sites.
  • A site can be a top-level site or a sub site of the top level site.
  • A site can also have other sites – these are called sub-sites.
  • Sub sites can also have other sub sites and so on.
  • To create a sub site in SharePoint 13, go to SharePoint Site>Settings>Site Contents>New Sub site>enter title, desc,url,template.

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