Create Site Collections via PowerShell

2013

Renaming Site Collections

$site = Get-SPSite http://portal.contoso.com/sites/demo
$uri = New-Object System.Uri("http://demo.contoso.com")
$site.Rename($uri)

Thx Todd - How to Rename SharePoint 2013 Site Collections Without Prayer or Sobbing

Host Named Site Collections

So the future for Microsoft is to use Host Named Site Collections and since we have no GUI, my challenge has been to script this via PowerShell.  But many examples on the web have come up short and since I have been real busy this project has been put on the back burner.  Finally!

For my students, I am using 20331 Lab 8 but you can use any SharePoint farm, but you will need to modify the IP address and domain names as needed

http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2014/09/creating-host-name-site-collection-via.html

2010 Archive

How do you create multiple site collections via PowerShell?

The following script allows you to create a site collection with a dedicated content db and url.

First you set an array with the site collection names, then add managed path, content db and site collections for each url in the array.

$a = ("Engineering", "Sales")
ForEach($url in $a)
{
New-SPManagedPath -relativeurl /$url -webapplication http://intranet.contoso.com -explicit

New-SPContentDatabase -Name WSS_Content_Intranet_$url -WebApplication http://intranet.contoso.com

New-SPSite -Url http://intranet.contoso.com/$url -ContentDatabase WSS_Content_Intranet_$url -OwnerAlias CONTOSO\SP_Admin -Template "STS#0"
}

Special Site Collections
 
Hosted Named Site Collections (great article)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2012/03/27/what-every-sharepoint-admin-needs-to-know-about-host-named-site-collections.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/markarend/archive/2012/05/30/host-named-site-collections-hnsc-for-sharepoint-2010-architects.aspx (scripts confirmed)

How to Create Host Named Site Collections (I found some good code samples and reposted below in case of site deletion) Note you need to add the DNS entries for both.

http://mshorrosh.blogspot.com/2014/02/quick-guide-to-implementing-host-name.html

   1:  #"Add SharePoint Cmdlets"

   2:  add-pssnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell

   3:   

   4:  # Web App Variables

   5:  $WebAppDefault = "SharePoint - HSNC Example"

   6:  $Port = "80"

   7:  $AppPool = "HSNCAppPool"

   8:  $Account = "domain\svc-apppoolaccount"

   9:   

  10:  # Root Site Variables'

  11:  $RootHHDefault = "myrootsite.com"

  12:  $RootURLDefault = "http://myrootsite.com"

  13:  $Owner = "domain\svc-farmaccount"

  14:  $RootDB = "RootDB"

  15:  $Lang = "1033"

  16:  $Template = "blankinternetcontainer#0"

  17:   

  18:  # HSNC Site Variables

  19:  $HNSCSITE1 = "http://hnsc1.com"

  20:  $HNSCSITE2 = "http://hnsc2.com"

  21:   

  22:  # Create Web App

  23:  New-SPWebApplication -Name $WebAppDefault -hostHeader $RootHHDefault -Port $port -ApplicationPool $AppPool -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount $Account) -AuthenticationProvider (New-SPAuthenticationProvider –UseWindowsIntegratedAuthentication) -DatabaseName $RootDB -AllowAnonymousAccess

  24:  echo "Web App created"

  25:   

  26:  # Create Root Site Collection 

  27:  New-SPSite $RootURLDefault -Name 'Root Site' -Description 'External Root Site Collection' -OwnerAlias $Owner -language $Lang -Template $Template

  28:  echo "Root Site Collection created"

  29:   

  30:  # Create HNSC 1

  31:  New-SPSite $HNSCSITE1 -HostHeaderWebApplication (get-spwebapplication $RootURLDefault) -Name 'Site 1' -Description 'HNSC Site1' -OwnerAlias $Owner -language $Lang -Template $template

  32:  echo "HNSC 1 Site Collection created"

  33:   

  34:  # Create HNSC 2

  35:  New-SPSite $HNSCSITE2 -HostHeaderWebApplication (get-spwebapplication $RootURLDefault) -Name 'Site 2' -Description 'HNSC Site2' -OwnerAlias $Owner -language $Lang -Template $template

  36:  echo "HNSC 2 Site Collection created"

http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2014/06/create-host-named-site-collections-in-sharepoint-2013.html

   1:  Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

   2:  #Set variables for New web application creation

   3:  $WebAppName = "HNSC Host Web Application"

   4:  #Variables for new Application Pool

   5:  $AppPoolName = "HNSC App Pool"

   6:  #Get the existing Managed Account

   7:  $AppPoolAccount = Get-SPManagedAccount "Crescent\SvcAppPool"

   8:  #To utilize existing AppPool, Use: Get-SPServiceApplicationPool <AppPoolName>

   9:  $ContentDatabase = "SP13_HNSC_Content"

  10:  $AuthProvider = New-SPAuthenticationProvider –UseWindowsIntegratedAuthentication

  11:  #Create the web application

  12:  $WebApp = New-SPWebApplication -ApplicationPool $AppPoolName -ApplicationPoolAccount $AppPoolAccount 

 

   1:  $ServerName = "http://G1WFE01"

   2:  New-SPSite -URL $ServerName -Name "HNSC Root" -OwnerAlias "Global\SvcOwner"

   1:  $HostURL = "http://WFE01"

   2:  $OwnerID = "Crescent\Support"

   3:  $OwnerMail= "Support@Crescent.com"

   4:  $SiteURL = "http://sales.crescent.com"

   5:  $TemplateVal ="sts#0" #Team Site

   6:  #Create the HNSC

   7:  New-SPSite -url $SiteURL -HostHeaderWebApplication $HostURL -owneralias $OwnerID -owneremail $OwnerMail -Template $TemplateVal

 

Unlike SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 allows managed paths in host named site collections. Here is how: Create a new managed path "teams"

 

   1:  New-SPManagedPath "Teams" –Hostheader

 

 

 

   1:  $HostURL = "http://WFE01"

   2:  $OwnerID = "Crescent\Salaudeen"

   3:  $OwnerMail= "Support@Crescent.com"

   4:  $SiteURL = "http://Sales.crescent.com/teams/cloud"

   5:  $SiteName = "Clould Sales Team"

   6:  $TemplateVal ="sts#0"

   7:  #Get the Host named site collection by its name

   8:  $webApp = Get-SPWebApplication $HostURL

   9:  #Create new Host-named site under the managed path

  10:  New-SPSite $SiteURL -OwnerAlias $OwnerID -HostHeaderWebApplication $webApp -Name $SiteName -Template $TemplateVal