Creating a site collection
To create a new site collection, click on the “Create site collection” button in the overview of your site collections.
In the subsequent editing view, in addition to the site collection name, you will also specify the license type and required language. By specifying the administrator, you are determining the user who will be given administrative rights, including the right to give other users permissions for that site collection. Please note that you may first need to assign a SharePoint license to the required administrator. After selecting the license type, you will also specify the required size of the site collection. The minimum size of a site collection is 0.5 gigabytes. You can increase or decrease the size in 0.5-gigabyte steps. You can also select which template you want to use for your site collection. You have various selection options for this, such as a team site, wiki site, or blog. These correspond to the SharePoint standard templates.
| Template | Beschreibung |
| Blog | A website on which a person or team can publish thoughts, observations, and knowledge, and where visitors to the website can write comments. |
| Community Portal | A website for exploring communities. |
| Community Site | A place where community members discuss issues of common interest. Members can search and browse through relevant content by using the individual categories, sort discussions by popularity, or show only contributions that have a best answer. Members receive reliability points for their participation in the community, such as for starting discussions and answers given, as well as for “liking” contributions and giving best answers. |
| Document Center | A website for the central management of documents in your organization. |
| Enterprise Search Center | A site for providing a company-wide search function. |
| Enterprise Wiki | A website for publishing collected knowledge you want to share with the entire organization. |
| Project Site | A site for the management of a project and collaboration on the project. This page summarizes all the statuses, communications, and artifacts for the project in one place. |
| Publishing Portal | An initial hierarchy for a website designed for the Internet or a comprehensive intranet portal. This website can easily be provided with recognizable branding. This website will usually have many more readers than contributors, and is used to publish web pages with approval Workflows. |
| Team Site | A place for collaborating with a group of People. |
| Wiki Site | This template is used to create a website where users can add, edit, and link web pages quickly and without Problems. |
Note: Please note that you can only create a site collection if your organization has sufficient free storage and at least one user in your organization has a SharePoint license.
Once a site collection has been created, you can access it to upload initial content or to authorize other users for access. To do this, simply select the link to your site collection in the detailed view. Alternatively, if you are the site collection administrator, you can navigate to the required site collection in the “Your SharePoint site collections” widget on the home page.
Managing a SharePoint site collection
There are additional help pages for accessing and managing a SharePoint site collection: Accessing and managing a SharePoint site collection