Deleting a Portal Site

If you delete a portal site, you will remove entries from the configuration database for all portal site content and all portal site configuration data, and you will remove content indexes. You can specify whether to delete associated databases when deleting the portal site.

In a shared services topology, if you delete the portal site that provides shared services, all child portal sites stop functioning. To restore functionality to the child portal sites, you must restore the parent portal site.

Only an administrator on the server farm can delete a portal site.

Delete a portal site

1. On the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration for server_name page, in the Portal Site and Virtual Server Configuration section, click List and manage portal sites.
2. On the Manage Portal Sites page, rest the pointer on the name of the portal site that you want to delete, and then click the arrow.
3. On the menu that appears, click Delete Portal Sites.
4. On the Delete portal_site_name page, if you want to delete all databases, select the Delete all databases check box.

   If you do not select this box, the databases will be detached from the configuration database but not deleted.

   The following databases will be deleted:

   • Profile (database name ends in _PROF)
   • Site (database name ends in _SITE)
   • Component settings (database name ends in _SERV)
   • All content databases associated with this virtual server (database name begins with STS_)

   The first nine characters of the database names are based on the first eight characters of the portal site name plus a number.

5. Click OK.

   Important  Data loss will occur. When you click OK, the portal site deletion process starts. You cannot cancel the portal site deletion process.