SP 2010: Create New Web Application and Site Collection

Create New Web Application

IIS Web Site

1. Description: MOSS Web App - 80 (Consider TurtlePoint Web App - 80)
   
2. Port: 80
   

Application Pool

1. App Pool Name: MOSS Web App - 80 (Consider TurtlePoint Web App - 80)
   
2. Account: spAppPool
   

Database Name and Authentication

1. DB Name: MOSS_WebApp_Content

MOSS_WebApp_Content DB created
MOSS Web App Web - 80 Site created
MOSS Web App - 80 App Pool created


Create New Site Collection

Title and Description

1. Title: Turtle Point

Template Selection

1. Collaboration > Blank Site
2. Activate these Site Collection Features
   
1. SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Collection
   
2. SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
3. SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection
4. Publishing Approval Workflow if desired
3. Activate these Site Features
   
1. SharePoint Server Enterprise Site
2. SharePoint Server Publishing
3. SharePoint Server Standard Site
4. Team Collaboration Lists
   

Primary Site Collection Administrator

1. TURTLELLC\Administrator

No new database, web site or app pool created

Causing the Create Site link to Create a Site Collection

If you layout your MOSS intranet with the multiple Site Collections approach, you can simplify the creation of new Site Collections.

There are a couple settings which need to be setup for this to work:

Central Administration

1. Central Administration > Application Management
2. Under the Application Security section click on Self-service site management
3. Turn, 'Enable Self-Service Site Creation' on
4. It is optional to require a secondary contact in this form
5. Click OK
   

Site Directory

1. From within the site directory of the web application, go to Site Settings > Modify All Site Settings
2. Under the "Site Collection Administration" area, click on "go to top-level site settings"
3. Under the same "Site Collection administration" area, click "Site Directory Settings"
4. Check 'Create new site collections from Site Directory'
5. Click OK

Now when you are the Site Directory, clicking the Create Site link, will create a Site Collection.

Thanks to Dave Wollerman for this tip.

Recipe for Moving a WSS Site to Its MOSS Site Collection

I recently had to move a bunch of WSS Sites to individual MOSS Site Collections, here is the recipe I used:

1. Backup MOSS - create a snapshot to rollback to if necessary
2. Export old WSS Site
   1. stsadm -o export -url http://OldWSSSiteCollection/OldSite -filename C:\Temp\Exports\Sites\OldSite.bak -overwrite -includeusersecurity -haltonfatalerror -versions 4 -nofilecompression
3. Manually create the new MOSS Site Collection. Keep in mind it must use the same template as the original site. So if your original Site used the Blank template, then you must use the Blank template.
4. Import old WSS Site into new MOSS Site Collection
   
   1. stsadm -o import -url http://NewMOSSnoblepoint/sites/NewSite -filename D:\MOSS Backup\Exports\Sites\OldSite.bak -includeusersecurity -haltonfatalerror -updateversions 2 -nofilecompression
5. Test Site for navigation and content
6. Change Top Site link
7. Fix any workflow issues

NOTE: Alerts have to be recreated after this process.