Here’s another blog post on how to create Host Named Site Collections. Here are a few reasons why you should use them over Path Based Site Collections Microsoft Recommends them as the preferred method to deploy sites in SharePoint 2013 … Read More
PowerShell to create the host named site collection web application and top site This post is step 1 of two steps to get host named site collections off the ground in your SharePoint. In this script you need to edit … Read More
Script to create host named site collections This post is step 2. This script works great to create the HNSC after you have created the web application and top site with the script that I created on this other post. … Read More
Here’s a sample from chapter4 of my new book, Troubleshooting SharePoint Path based site collections are easily identifiable by the slash that they have in front of the URL on the view all site collections page in Central Administration. Figure … Read More
This script creates a host named site collection in a web app that is named SharePoint – HNSC. You can modify it to your hearts content. If you replace Domain with the name of your domain, e.g. say you … Read More
Recently I faced an issue that I created for myself when attempting to convert a path based site collection (PBSC) to a host named site collection (HNSC) The situation was such that my PBSC was named https://portal.contoso.com and it … Read More