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How to delete a SharePoint Site Collection

When a Site Collection is not necessary anymore, you may need to delete it. So how to delete a SharePoint Site Collection? This tutorial will guide you on deleting that Site Collection!

But before I start writing in how to do that, it’s important to explain what is a Site Collection if you don’t know exactly what it is! According to Microsoft documentation: “A site collection is a group of websites that have the same owner and share administrative settings, for example, permissions, and quotas. Site collections are created within a web application. When you create a site collection, a top-level site is automatically created in the site collection. You can then create one or more subsites below the top-level site. The entire structure of the top-level site and all its subsites is called a site collection.”

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How to delete a SharePoint site

When a SharePoint subsite is not necessary anymore, you may need to delete it. So how to delete a SharePoint site? This tutorial will help you on deleting that site! Oh, needless to say that you can restore it from the Recycle bin if you want, for a period of time.

Before you advance to the method itself, it’s important to say what is a SharePoint site. There’s a lot of misconceptions between the words Site Collection and Sites. Even the SharePoint Admin interfaces calls a Site Collection as “Site” sometimes.

According to Microsoft documentation the sites objetive can be described like the paragraph below:

“You create sites in your site collection to partition your content so that you can have finer control of the appearance and the permission to the content. You can also have different features available on the various sites in your site collection. You can use a site template with its default configuration, or you can change the site’s default settings through site administration, and then save the site as a new template”.

It’s nice to share that there’s another name to a SharePoint Site from a Dev perspective, we call it a SPWeb.

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How to open SharePoint settings?

It may sound basic to teach how to open the SharePoint Settings page, but it can help someone that is stepping inside the SharePoint world for the first time. Also this post will be used for referencing purposes in other step-by-step tutorials, reducing the post size for those who need to do or access something inside the Settings page. That’s why this post will cover how to open SharePoint settings.

Te settings page allows you to do a lot of things! According to Microsoft docs: “Once you’ve created a site in SharePoint Online or SharePoint Server, you can make changes to the settings, information, and permissions for the site.”. You can also define some advanced settings if you are a site owner or site collection administrator.

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