Hi All,

Need some help from the experts here.

A doubt that we had. Should search center (lets say enterprise search in SP 2013) be created as a separate site collection or should it be a subsite of some existing site collection. what would be the pros and cons of each approach.

Thanks for any pointers that  you can provide.

The consensus used to be that it should/must be a separate site collection. This was primarily to allow you to manage the templates issues you had in 2010 with search and in part security.

These days I don't see a significant advantage in splitting it out, it might as well go in the root site collection.

The consensus used to be that it should/must be a separate site collection. This was primarily to allow you to manage the templates issues you had in 2010 with search and in part security.

These days I don't see a significant advantage in splitting it out, it might as well go in the root site collection.

• Proposed as answer by Wendy LiMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 2 hours 20 minutes ago

The consensus used to be that it should/must be a separate site collection. This was primarily to allow you to manage the templates issues you had in 2010 with search and in part security.

These days I don't see a significant advantage in splitting it out, it might as well go in the root site collection.

• Proposed as answer by Wendy LiMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Saturday, February 07, 2015 9:24 AM

The consensus used to be that it should/must be a separate site collection. This was primarily to allow you to manage the templates issues you had in 2010 with search and in part security.

These days I don't see a significant advantage in splitting it out, it might as well go in the root site collection.

• Proposed as answer by Wendy LiMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Saturday, February 07, 2015 9:24 AM
• Marked as answer by Wendy LiMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 9 hours 36 minutes ago

The consensus used to be that it should/must be a separate site collection. This was primarily to allow you to manage the templates issues you had in 2010 with search and in part security.

These days I don't see a significant advantage in splitting it out, it might as well go in the root site collection.

• Proposed as answer by Wendy LiMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Saturday, February 07, 2015 9:24 AM
• Marked as answer by Wendy LiMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, February 09, 2015 2:07 AM