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Sep 1, 2012

SharePoint Welcome Page Redirection To other Site collection or Web application!!!


Scenario: You have several SharePoint web-applications (only site collections). Whenever a user opens one of those using just an entry-URL (such as http://pravyns) you want to redirect to another site collection (not necessarily in the same web-application - for example to http://pravyns/site .

1. Go to the web you want to create the redirect.
2. If it is a publishing web, go to the "Pages" library, otherwise, you can use any other library that is of type "Document Library"
3. Go to the "List Settings"
4. Ensure that under "Advanced Settings" "Allow management of content types" is set to "yes"
5. In the "Content Types" section click on "Add from existing site content types"
6. Add the "Link to a Document" content type
7. Your content types list should now include the "Link to a Documet" content type:
8. Back on the list with its items, create a new item of type "Link to Document":
9. Don't forget to publish your link if you have a publishing/approval process setup for your library! 
10. Now go to the "Site Settings" of your web and choose in "Look'n'Feel" section "Welcome Page":

Enter your link as the welcome page of this web. 

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