Bitesize Video Overview: Host-named Site Collections in SP2010
It’s been a while since my first (and, until today only) post on SP365, so before I begin I’d just like to say what a fantastic job Matt and the other authors have been doing over the last few months. Part of me says that organising one’s wedding (with 220 guests attending) is a valid excuse for failing to churn out decent blog content, but I’ll let you be the judge of that.
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Given that I work at a SharePoint hosting company, it’s no surprise that I think that the new multi-tenant capabilities in Foundation 2010 are simply marvellous. Amongst the most useful features (albeit not a brand new one per se) are host-named site collections, an essential part of any hosted offering (Office 365 included) given that they provide support for vanity URLs in a scalable manner.
As such, I thought I would put together a “bitesize” overview of the capability. The inspiration for doing a video blog (or “vlog” as they seem to be referred to these days) came from James Love, aka @jimmywim so credit to him for the idea.
Further reading:
Plan for host-named site collections (SharePoint Server 2010)
Technical diagrams (SharePoint Server 2010)
In case you are left wondering, I had originally intended to call this a “5 minute overview” in an attempt to make this concise but soon realised that the video spills way over 5 minutes. Still, I think it is still small enough to remain “bite size”.
Please let me know what you think (good or bad) – if this is well received I may start a short video series.
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Benjamin,
The bite size video concept is great! It did run a little long but approximately 5 minutes is great for showing off something like this. I hope to see more!
Benjamin,
How can this be used for a hosting solution if we have no separate sites in IIS? I mean, from your example can all these host name site collections be accessed from Internet?
@Manoj – The short answer is “Yes”.
The capability is targeted at hosters and indeed used by Microsoft in their O365 platform so it is certainly something that can be used over the Internet.
You will need to ensure that your host-named site collections are created with an FQDN, e.g. “subdomain.domain.com”, not just “subdomain” to ensure that they are externally accessible.
In my example, you (or your customers) would need to own customera.com, customerb.com and customerc.com and set up public A records for www in each case.
Hopefully that makes sense, let me know if you need further clarification.
i used the following command
New-SPSite http://fitness.datasmith.local -OwnerAlias datasmith\larry -HostHeaderWebApplication http://mars
it was created via powershell, however, when i attempt to access it via browser, i am prompted to log on, however, it never accepts my credentials
any ideas?
Hi Larry,
Have you checked to make sure that this isn’t a 401.1 caused by the loopback security check?
More info here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861
Let me know if you are still stuck.
Ben