17 November, 2011

How to find out the site collection ID

A SharePoint Site is a collection of pages, lists, and libraries configured for the purpose of achieving an express goal. A site may contain sub-sites, and those sites may contain further sub-sites. Typically, sites need to be created from scratch, but sites can also be created according to pre-defined templates that provide packaged functionality. Examples of Site templates in SharePoint include: Blogs, MySites, collaboration (team) sites, document workspaces, groupwork sites, and meeting workspaces.

Sites have navigation, themes/branding, custom permissions, workflows, and have the ability to be configured or customized in a number of ways. In order to achieve a greater degree of maintainability, sites typically inherit site-level settings from their parent sites.

While working on one SharePoint issue in collaboration with the SQL, I need to run a SQL query against a specific site collection by using its ID. So you must be aware how to find out the ID of a site collection. Its takes some time to find out the answer but would like to share with all of you so that you can take the benefit of the same and your time will be saved, Thank you

Here is my analysis regarding the same:
1. Open the Central Administration

2. Application Management
3. SharePoint Site Management
4. Site collection quotas and locks
5. Select the appropriate site collection and you will get the ID of that specific site collection on top of the browser.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the mentioned information then please let me know.
I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you

5 comments:

  1. I hope you are going to continue to keep in posting new content & thank you for sharing your great experience among us.

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  2. Thank you very much for your appreciation and kind words.

    Its my pleasure that my blog info helped you to get the insight that you are looking for...

    Thanks again and surely will share my experiences and troubleshooting steps so that everyone can take the advantage.

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  3. I am going to almost certainly be back again to examine a lot more, thank you for that information.

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  4. NEVER run SQL queries against the SharePoint database! Always use the APIs.

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