SharePoint 2010 Part 4: How to delete a Site Collection

This series is mainly targeted for developers.

• Open “SharePoint 2010 Central Administration”
• Select “Application Management” from the left menu panel and click on “Delete a site collection” as shown below

• You need to select site collection to perform delete. select “Change Site Collection” from the drop menu as shown below

• I hosted my site collection at the root of SharePoint web application (and not in “/Sites/”). Click on “/” (root) to show site collection details. Click “Ok” to select.

• Once the selection is made, click on “Delete” to delete site collection from web application.

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