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If you are managing a SharePoint site and need to find out how much space is it using, this post will help on finding the Storage Metrics in SharePoint. You can access this information easily, but it’s required to have SharePoint Site Collection admin rights.

The SharePoint Site Collection admin rights is able to do a lot of things, he is a real Super User and is more powerful than the Full Control permission level. You can access things like the Storage Quota and manage Site Collection Features that are more advanced and complex.

The task this post teaches how to do is very common administrative task for people who support SharePoint solutions and need to control if a subsite or library is getting bigger and if it needs to a new architecture to allocate and distribute the resources in a better way.

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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Storage Metrics in SharePoint

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