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To create a SiteCollection with a host header irrespective of the WebApplication host header (even if the WebApplication did not have a host header) Solution: In PowerShell: New-SPSite http://host.header.site.url -OwnerAlias DOMAIN\username -HostHeaderWebApplication http://servername Need to add a A record in the DNS. **If you want to make this work in your dev machine then add a entry in the Hosts file of your SharePoint server. C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.txt for example: 127.0.0.1          intranet.triadinfotech.com Hope this will be helpful in your current and future SharePoint Implementations.

I had to Create a SiteCollection with a host header irrespective of the WebApplication host header (even if the WebApplication did not have a host header) Solution: In PowerShell: New-SPSite http://host.header.site.url -OwnerAlias DOMAIN\username -HostHeaderWebApplication http://servername But this gave birth to a new issue: Cannot open the SharePoint site on server, but works on clients Solution: Suppose you run into problems with your machine that you can never open the SharePoint site on your server There might be several reasons why you may run into this First question : do you have a Host header on the site? Second: did you configure the site in a Host header mode? Third : Is the site browse able on the server with servername ? If you answer yes to all three I guess I know what to do, also even if you answer no to the third one we are still good…. Followed the KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 and disabled loopback check Steps to do th...

http://blog.blksthl.com/2013/02/26/a-guide-to-quick-sharepoint-2013-branding http://blog.drisgill.com/ http://www.sharepoint2013.me/Blog/Post/129/Master-Page-and-Layout-page-styles-in-SharePoint-2013 http://sharepoint2013center.blogspot.in/p/adding-style-sheets-css-in-layout.html (Where to put CSS in Master Page and Layout / Application Pages) http://www.idubbs.com/blog/2012/sharepoint-2013-enabling-design-manager/ http://manjunath-sharepoint.blogspot.in/2013/04/branding-sharepoint-2013-creating.html http://www.slideshare.net/pixelmill/sharepoint-2013-design-manager-from-html-to-sharepoint Common Branding Tasks: ·          Hiding Site Actions for Non Administrators ·          Hiding Ribbon ·          Hiding My Site, My Profile under the User Name menu ·          Hiding Quick Launch Bar ·   ...