I Deleted A Site Collection in Production Sever

In one early morning, I am doing multi tasks. I think I am in the sub site but actually I am in the top level. When I deleted that site, some calls coming in.

Fortunately, there is PowerShell cmd you can restore deleted site collection.This cmdlet was introduced in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 with Service Pack 1 (SP1).

• Get-SPDeletedSite
• Restore-SPDeletedSite
• Remove-SPDeletedSite

Run Use Get-SPDeletedSite to find Identity (GUID) then

Restore-SPDeletedSite -Identity 610857cb-8414-4a89-8bf3-ad3628f6c86c

All deleted sub site can be retrieved from Site Recycle Bin!

Click the Site Collection Recycle Bin (Site Actions > Site Settings > Recycle Bin) under Site Collection Administration:

Select “Deleted from end user Recycle Bin”

Select the checkbox next to the site to restore and click “Restore Selection” from the menu above. Once completed, navigate to the newly restore site:

 

Thanks Microsoft for saving my job!

“Content Database Time Out” when you delete a large Site Collection

If you delete a large Site Collection from UI, you may end with Time Out error. Then you will find the path for the site collection is still there but you can’t delete it anymore.

Open your sharepoint database and go to SiteMap table under SharePoint_Config db. remove the row with the path of site collection.

You are ready to go

Publishing Sub-site to Site Collection

For those in need of this, Gary LaPointe has updated his gl-convertsubsitetositecollection command to be fully supported.

http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2007/09/convert-sub-site-to-site-collection.html

The only hitch is it assumes SP2. One good reason to upgrade.

Summary of recommendations of site collection and subsites

Here is a summary of the recommendations for improving performance at each level of storage when high volumes of content are being stored:

Level Performance limits
Site collection
2,000 subsites of any site is the recommended limit.

The same content database is used for an entire site collection. This may affect performance in operations such as backup and restore.

Site
2,000 libraries and lists is the recommended limit.

Library
10,000,000 documents is the recommended limit.

2,000 items per view is the recommended limit.

Folder
2,000 items per folder is the recommended limit.