Administration Service

The Administration service provides methods for managing a deployment of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, such as for creating or deleting site collections.

Public Constructors

The following constructor can be used to instantiate the Administration service.

Name Description
Admin Initializes a new instance of the Administration service.

Public Methods

The following table shows the methods of the Administration service and a brief description of each.

Name Description
CreateSite Creates a SharePoint site.
DeleteSite Deletes the specified site collection.
GetLanguages Returns the languages used in the deployment of Windows SharePoint Services.
RefreshConfigCache Refreshes the configuration cache for the virtual server.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. Instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Remarks

The account that executes a request implementing this method must be a member of either the local administrators group on the server or the Microsoft Windows NT security group account that is identified as the SharePoint Administrator Group Account.

Requirements

Namespace: Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer

Platforms: Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Assembly: Windows SharePoint Services Web Service (in admsoap.dll)

Web Reference: http://Server_Name:Port_Number/_vti_adm/Admin.asmx