How to Create a wiki site

A Wiki  is a website that allows visitors to easily add, remove or edit content on the site, often without the need for registration.  Content on the site is often ‘policed’ by a community of contributors, who have the capability of editing inappropriate or incorrect information.  The most powerful element of Wiki sites is the ease of creating and editing web sites, enabling non-technical users to wholly participate in knowledge sharing or collaboration efforts through Wiki sites.  Within Windows SharePoint Services, a wiki site also enables the capability of viewing versions of a wiki site entry, along with when changes were made and who made those changes.  

Users have the capability of ‘rolling back’ to a previous version if updates are considered incorrect or inappropriate.  Users with Full Control permissions, often administrators of the wiki site, also have the capability to tightly control who has the capability to edit wiki site entries, choosing to allow only a certain group of users to edit a wiki entry, while allowing everybody else to read the wiki site.

Before creating a site, make sure that you are at the location on your site where you want to create a new subsite.

1. Click View All Site Content, and then click Create on the All Site Content page / Site actions-site settings-Under site administration-sites and workspaces

 -In most cases, you can use the Site Actions menu  instead to complete this step.

2. Under Web Pages, click Sites and Workspaces.

           

          -In the Title and Description section, type a title for your wiki site. The title is required.

          -The title appears at the top of the Web page and appears in navigational elements that help users to find and open the site.

3. Type a description of the purpose of your wiki in the Description box. The description is optional.

         

          -The description helps users understand the purpose of your site.

4. In the Web Site Address section, type a URL for your wiki site. 

         -Please avoid Special characters

5. In the Template Selection section, click the Collaboration tab if it is not already selected, and then click the Wiki Site template.

6. In the Permissions section, select whether you want to provide access to the same users who have access to this parent site or to a unique set of users.

If you click Use Unique Permissions, you can set up permissions later after you finish entering information on the current page.

7. In the Navigation Inheritance section, specify whether you want the site to inherit its top link bar from the parent site or to have its own set of links on the top link bar. 

This setting also affects whether the new site appears as part of the breadcrumb navigation of the parent site. 

The breadcrumb navigation provides a set of hyperlinks that enable site users to quickly navigate up the hierarchy of sites within a site collection.

8. When you navigate down the site hierarchy, breadcrumb navigation appears on the page to which you have navigated. 

If you click No, your subsite will not appear in the breadcrumb navigation for the parent site and the breadcrumb navigation for your new site will not include the parent site.

9. Click Create.

 If you specified that you want the subsite to have the same permission as its parent site, the new site is created when you click Create. 

10. If the Set Up Groups for this Site page appears, you need to specify whether you want to create new groups or use existing groups for visitors, members, and owners of this site. 

In each section, do one of the following:

If you click Create a new group, either accept the automatically created name for the new SharePoint group, or type a new name, and then add the people whom you want. 

Click the check mark icon to verify any names that you type, or click the Address Book icon to browse through your directory for more names.

In the Visitors to this Site section, you can also add all authenticated users to the Visitors group, which provides the group members with permission to read the content on your site, by default.

If you click Use an existing group, select the SharePoint group that you want from the list.

If you have several SharePoint groups, the list may be abbreviated. Click More to see the full list or Less to abbreviate the list.

11. Click OK.

Wiki site will be successfully created,Thanks...

If you have any queries/questions then feel free to ask...I would be more than happy to help you as well as answer your queries...Thanks again...

Delete a site collection by using Central Administration + SharePoint 2010

1. Verify that you have the following administrative credentials:

 To delete a site collection, the user account that is performing this procedure must be a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group.

2. On the Central Administration Web site, on the Quick Launch, click Application Management

3. On the Application Management page, in the Site Collections section, click Delete a site collection.

4. On the Delete Site Collection page, in the Site Collection drop-down list, click the down arrow, and then click Change Site Collection.


The Select Site Collection dialog box appears.

5. In the Web Application drop-down list, click the down arrow, and then click Change Web Application.


The Select Web Application dialog box appears.

6. Click the name of the Web application that contains the site 
collection that you want to delete. 


Relative URLs of sites in the site collections of the Web application that you have selected appear on the Select Site Collection dialog box.

7. Click the relative URL of the site collection that you want to delete, and then click OK.

8. Read the Warning section and verify that the site collection information is correct.

9. On the Delete Site Collection page, click Delete.

The site collection that you select is deleted.


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Create a site collection by using Central Administration + SP2010

1. Verify that you have the following administrative credentials:

-To create a site collection, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group on the computer that is running the SharePoint Central Administration Web site.

2. On the Central Administration Web site, in the Application Management section, click Create site collections.

3. On the Create Site Collection page, in the Web Application section, if the Web application in which you want to create the site collection is not selected, on the Web Application menu click Change Web Application, and then click the Web application in which you want to create the site collection.

4. In the Title and Description section, type the title and description for the site collection.

5. In the Web Site Address section, select the path to use for your URL (for example, a wildcard inclusion path such as /sites/, or the root directory (/).

If you select a wildcard inclusion path, you must also type the site name to use in your site's URL.

6. In the Template Selection section, in the Select a template list, select the template that you want to use for the top-level site in the site collection, or click the Custom tab to create an empty site and apply a template later.

7. In the Primary Site Collection Administrator section, type the user name (in the form DOMAIN\username) for the user who will be the site collection administrator.

8. In the Secondary Site Collection Administrator section, type the user name for the secondary administrator of the site collection.

Designating a secondary site collection administrator is a best practice to ensure that someone can manage the site collection when a primary site collection administrator is not present.

9. If you are using quotas to manage storage for site collections, in the Quota Template section, click a template in the Select a quota template list.

10. Click OK.

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IE crashes when opening Office documents on SharePoint?

One of the most common problems around the office seems to be the browser crashes when attempting to open files in a SharePoint document library. 

Yesterday, one of my user had raised a ticket that he is facing a problem with Internet Explorer 6 crashing whenever he try to open an office document in a SharePoint.

Exact issue details: You connect to a document library in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site or in a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site by using Windows Internet Explorer 7 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. However, when you try to open a Microsoft Office document, Internet Explorer crashes (stops responding). 

This problem occurs if the following conditions are true:

    - You install a Microsoft Office 2003 product on the computer.

    - You install one or more 2007 Office system programs on the computer.

    - You repair or update the installation of an Office 2003 product.

In this scenario, the older version of the Name.dll file becomes the registered version. When the Owssupp.dll file is used, it tries to use functionality that is not available. This condition causes Internet Explorer to crash (stop responding). 

Resolution: 

Download and install Microsoft Hotfix Patch

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888

Another issue which is based on the same story but configuration is different:

if you face below mentioned error message and your machine configuration is windows vista, office 2007 and internet explorer 7 then please follow the below mentioned steps to resolve the issue:

-Click Start Button

-Type Office Diagnostics into Search box

-Click Microsoft Office Diagnostics

-Click Continue to begin the scan.

-It will take some time to run and as it scans your system, you should see results appear online

-Done!!!- click on continue (If you click on the Continue button above, you will be taken to a 

Microsoft Office site which will give you detailed information regarding what was found)

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File Name, Length, Size and Invalid Character Restrictions and Recommendations

New Blocked File Types

If you were familiar with the WSS 2.0 list, there are some new Blocked File Types: .asmx, .rem, .resx, .soap, or .ashx.  If they existed before upgrade they are no longer visible or cannot be opened after upgrade.  These file extensions have been added to the list of blocked file extensions.

You now have the ability to make differences between farm wide blocked file types and web application blocked file types.  If you want to un block it, it needs to be removed at both farm and application levels, but you can add specific blocked files for a single web application.  The farm level block list for example will override anything removed at the web application level.

My most commonly removed blocked files are .chm (help files), .lnk (url link), .url (url link) 

My most commonly added blocked files are .mp3 (audio), .pst (mail), .vhd (virtual hard drive)

Site Names

-In WSS Site Names may not contain the following characters: \ / : * ? " < > | # { } % & " ~ +

-You cannot start a site name, sub site name, or a site group name with an underscore (_) character or with the period character (I recommend avoiding the (_) underscore in site names)

-You cannot use the period character consecutively in the middle of a site name

-You cannot use the period character at the end of a site name

File Names

-Invalid characters: " # % & * : < > ? \ / { | } ~ 

-Cannot be longer than 128 characters

-You cannot use the period character consecutively in the middle of a file name

-You cannot use the period character at the end of a file name

-You cannot start a file name with the period character

Folder Names

-You cannot use the following characters anywhere in a folder name or a server name:  ~ # % & * { } \ : < > ? / | "

-Cannot be longer than 128 characters

-You cannot use the period character consecutively in the middle of a folder name

-You cannot use the period character at the end of a folder name

-You cannot start a folder name with the period character

Max File Upload/Download Sizes

The default max single file upload size is 50 MB by default for a web application.  

Microsoft IT limits their environment at 100 MB, and the maximum that the product itself can handle or support is 2GB which is essentially a SQL limit.  By setting the limit to blank will essentially support what SQL will support.

Increase the maximum upload size

1.  Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint Central Administration.

2.  Under Virtual Server Configuration, click Configure virtual server settings.

3.  On the Virtual Server List page, click the virtual server you want to change.

4.  On the Virtual Server Settings page, under Virtual Server Management, click Virtual server general settings.

5.  Under Maximum upload size, type the maximum file size (in MB) that you want to allow to be uploaded.

6.  Click OK.

1. Get into the SharePoint Central Administration Site

2. Select "Application Management"

3. Under the "SharePoint Web Application Management" section select "Web Application General Settings"

4. Change the "Maximum Upload Size"

If IIS is timing out when you upload large files, you can configure the Connection timeout setting in IIS to allow more than the default 120 seconds (2 minutes).

Tune the IIS connection timeout

1.    Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.

2.    Right-click the virtual server you want to configure, and then click Properties.

3.    Click the Web Site tab.

4.    In the Connections section, in the Connection timeout box, type the number of seconds you want IIS to wait before timing out.

5.    Click OK.