Delete A Site Collection In SharePoint 2013 Central Administration

In this article, we will see how to delete a site collection in SharePoint 2013 Central Admin. A site collection will act like a base for all of your different sites on SharePoint. You can use it for your organization or a public facing Website. If you delete a site collection, all the sub sites and contents will be deleted.

How to delete?

Let’s open Central Admin of SharePoint on your machine. On your Windows desktop screen, click Start >> Administrative Tools >> SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.

Run it as an administrator to have the elevated privileges.
You will see the screenshot given below.
Central Admin is configured under the categories given below.
Click on Application Management.
Go to Web Applications >> Under Site Collections.

Click on “Delete a Site Collection”.
You will see the screen shown below.

Configuration

Site Collection
Choose the site collection, which you want to delete.

Note

If you delete a site collection, all the sub sites and contents will be deleted.
Once you select a site collection, a delete button will be enabled below on the right side.
Click on it, your site collection will be deleted.

Here in this article, we saw how to delete a site collection in SharePoint, using central administration. There are more to come on Central administration. Until then keep reading and keep learning.