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Using STSADM.EXE to Create Empty Site Collection

By Praveen Modi ⋅ February 24, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment
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There are situations when we want to create empty site collection, like when your content deployment job is failing due to conflicting content. In these cases STSADM.EXE comes handy.

STSADM.EXE is the only means to create a completely empty site collection.

Syntax
STSADM.EXE -o createsite -url <url-to-site-collection> -ownerlogin domain\user -owneremail <email-address>

Example
STSADM.EXE -o createsite -url http://servername:9009/sites/EmptySiteCollectionName -ownerlogin mydomain\praveen -owneremail abc@xyz.com

Remember, using the “Blank Site” template does NOT creates an completely empty site collection. The site collection created by “Blank Site” template create some content for default website.
You can see the difference if you create a site collection using both methods and then inspect the content of the created sites using SharePoint designer.

Tags: Create site collection using STSADM, Difference between Blank and Empty site collection, How to create an empty site collection, MOSS, SharePoint, Site Administration, STSADM