Sunday, May 31, 2015

SharePoint 2013 /Creation of Web Application/Creation of site Collection

SharePoint 2013 Introduction

SharePoint is an extensible web based platform which contains various products and technologies aimed at development of corporate portals. These products and technologies are referred to as SharePoint Products and Technologies.Microsoft SharePoint is a enterprise collaboration and content management portal.which enable users connect to each other and share the information across an organization
It allows individuals in an organization to easily create and manage their own collaborative Websites

Simplifies how people find and share information across boundaries and enabling better informed decisions
Seamlessly integrates with Windows and MS Office Does not refer to a specific product or technology

Advantages of SharePoint Products and Technologies (High level features)

Rich UI Easy site editing and branding Ribbon Interface.
Better Site Provisioning Quick development No DBA required
Better document Management Better Versioning Document Libraries
Automated Email and SMS Alerts
Easy Customization options: “My Site” (using WebParts)
Built In Indexing & Search Engine
Integration with Active Directory
Integration of MS-Office Products
Reports in PDF, Word and other formats
Document Workflow (Approval)
Document View within browser
Permissions
Collaboration
Communication
Task Manager

SharePoint Creating web application

A SharePoint 2013 web application is composed of an Internet Information Services (IIS) web site that acts as a logical unit for the site collections that you create. Before you can create a site collection, we must first create a Web application. Each web application is represented by a different IIS web site with a unique or shared application pool. we can assign each web application a unique domain name.

When you create a new web application, you also create a new content database and define the authentication method used to connect to the database. In addition, you define an authentication method to be used by the IIS Web site in SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint hierarchy

Server Farm
Web Application
Site Collections
Sites
Lists, Library..etc

Create Web application in SharePoint

Step 1

Let’s start by navigation to the SharePoint Central Administration.here we will find under Application Management, Click on Mange web application link Button

This page you can see which are already running web applications,now we have to create new web application then Click on New Button.

Step 2

A pop-up window open for creating web application will appear Specify a port number.
By default Allow Anonymous selected No, if you your web application Anonymous site click yes.
Select the authentication mode. By default, it will be Claims based authentication.
We can change the content database name for easily identifying the database for your web application (eg: WSS_CONTENT_PortNumber).
Click on OK button to start creating the web application

After Click ok Button It will take few Seconds to create web application

Once the web application is created, the following pop-up will come and here will be provide to create a site Collection

SharePoint Creating site collection

A site collection is made up of one top-level site and all sites below it. it is the top level of organization in a SharePoint 2013 web application. The number of site collections you can have in a single web application depends on the capacity of your server infrastructure.A site collection is used to provide a grouping of ‘SharePoint Sites’.Each web application will typically have at least one site collection.

Create a Site collection In sharepoint

Step 1

Go to the SharePoint Central Administration. Here we will find under Application Management, Click on Create Site Collection link Button
Please select the web application URL If you want to create site collection under the current web application just go ahead other wise click change web application.