View site collections for a Web application

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2015-03-09

Web sites based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 exist in a hierarchy. At the top of the hierarchy is a top-level Web site. Under this top-level site, there can be multiple subsites, and each subsite can contain other subsites. The entire structure of a top-level Web site and all of its subsites is called a site collection.

You can view the site collections in a Web application on the Site collection page in the SharePoint Central Administration Web site. The Site collection page lists the URLs of all available site collections in a Web application. Site collection details appear in the pane on the right side of the page. The following details are displayed:

• URL

• Title

• Description

• Primary

• Administrator

• E-mail address

• Database name

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Enumsubwebs: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server).

Membership in the Farm Administrators SharePoint group, or equivalent, is the minimum permission level required to complete this procedure. To view one of the sites within the list, you must have permissions to that site.

View site collections for a Web application

Use this procedure to view a list of all the sites in the site collection for the selected Web application.

View site collections for a Web application

1. On the top navigation bar of the SharePoint Central Administration Web site page, click Application Management.

2. In the SharePoint Site Management section, click Site collection list. The Site Collection List page appears.

3. In the Web Application drop-down box, click the down arrow, and then click Change Web Application. The Select Web Application page lists the available Web applications.

4. Click the name of the Web application. The Site Collection List page displays the list of site collection relative URLs for the selected Web application on the left side of the page.

5. Click the URL of a site collection. The following information about the site collection appears in a table on the right side of the page.

   Information	Description
   URL	URL of the site collection.
   Title	Title given when the site was created.
   Description	Description provided when the site collection was created.
   Primary administrator	Primary administrator for the site collection.
   E-mail address	E-mail address for the primary administrator.
   Database name	Content database used by the site collection.

See Also

Concepts

Determine sites and subsites
Create a site collection (Office SharePoint Server)
Create a subsite
Delete a site collection (Office SharePoint Server)
Delete a subsite
View site collection hierarchy