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SharePoint Web Application is a top-level container for sites and content. Learn how to create, manage, and customize web applications in SharePoint!
SharePoint Web Applications are actually IIS Containers at the top level. Each web application we create from SharePoint creates a respective site in IIS and a content database in SQL Server. They can be deleted using the Central Administration site or PowerShell. To delete a SharePoint 2016 Web Application, follow these steps:…
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How to get all site collections of a web application in SharePoint? All site collections and sites within a web application share the same top-level URL. To get all site collections in a web application from SharePoint central Admin, follow these steps: Get all site collections in web application using PowerShell: Here…
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My Site host is a prerequisite for configuring user profile service applications in SharePoint (Although you can provide My site host URL later, it’s a best practice to have it ready prior to creating a user profile service application). Creating My Site Host in SharePoint involves the following steps: How to Create…
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Web Applications are the top-level containers in SharePoint. Each Web Application we create in SharePoint central administration is associated with the site in IIS. How to get all web applications in SharePoint farm? In many SharePoint environments, there are separate web applications for different functions. For example, one web application might be…
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To delete SharePoint Web application using PowerShell, use this cmdlet: Remove-SPWebApplication How to Delete a Web Application and All its zones? This deletes the entire Web application and its all zones: Remove Web Application Along with All its Databases and IIS Web Site: To remove the Web application along with its content…
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Web application creation process through SharePoint 2013 central administration site stopped in the middle with error messages “This page can’t be displayed”, “Internet Explorer Cannot Display This Page”!. However, I noticed that the IIS Web Sites, Application Pools, content databases are created! But there is no content inside the virtual directory in…
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Problem: Create a new web application from SharePoint 2013 Central Administration site got stuck at “This shouldn’t take long” message for a long time. Root cause: Insufficient Server memory! Solution: Try closing any open application in the server and free up server memory. Increase the “Shutdown Time Limit” value of Central Administration’s…
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While extending existing SharePoint web application to change its port is one option, there is an another workaround to change port of SharePoint web applications (Applies to both SharePoint 2010 / SharePoint 2007). How to change SharePoint web application port number? We can change the port of a SharePoint web application, by…
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We may want to change a web application name to make consistency in naming conventions or in some other scenarios. But I don’t find any SharePoint Central Administration options to rename a web application! So how to rename SharePoint 2013 web application Name? Well, PowerShell can help! Rename a SharePoint web application…
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SharePoint web application user policy is the ideal way to manage permissions at the web application level instead of individual site collections. E.g. You want to provide full control to your CIO to all site collections in a intranet web application. Web app policy is discussed in my another article: SharePoint web…
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