How to Delete a Host Named Site Collection in SharePoint using PowerShell?

Requirement: Delete a host named site collection using PowerShell in SharePoint. How to delete a host named Site Collection? Host Named Site Collections (HNSC) are an alternative way of creating site collections in SharePoint that allows the use of unique domain names instead of relying on managed paths. Generally, Host named site…

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Add Alternate Access Mapping URL to Host Named Site Collection Zone

Requirement: Add new URL to Host named site collections alternate access mappings.In a  SharePoint hosting Web application, once sites are provisioned from the hosting control panel, We got to manually add an internet zone URL with “HTTPS” to make it available over the Internet. Host named site collection alternate access mapping Host-named…

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How to Create Host Named Site Collections in SharePoint 2013?

In short, Host-named site collections allows you to have unique URL addresses for each site collection. E.g., Instead of having a typical “Sales” site URL as: https://sharepoint.yourcompany.com/sites/sales, You can have it as https://sales.yourcompany.com, and for HR, it can be https://hr.yourcompany.com and so on. As per Technet, HNSC is the preferred method for…

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