Manage unused Web sites

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint Central Administration.
2. On the Central Administration page, under Virtual Server Configuration, click Configure virtual server settings.
3. On the Virtual Server List page, click the virtual server that you want to configure.
4. On the Virtual Server Settings page, under Automated Web Site Collection Management, click Configure site collection use confirmation and deletion.

By default, site use confirmation is turned off. To require confirmation of use, you can specify the interval to wait before sending the first notification, and how frequently to continue sending notifications if site use is not confirmed. Notices are sent to the e-mail address specified in the site for the site owner and the secondary owner (if a secondary contact has been identified).

1. On the Configure Site Collection Use Confirmation and Auto-Deletion page, in the Confirmation and Automatic Deletion Settings section, select the Send e-mail notifications to owners of unused site collections check box.
2. In the Start sending notifications ___ days after site collection creation, or use is confirmed box, type the number of days to wait before sending notifications after the site is created or use is confirmed.

   For example, if you specify 60 days, when a user creates a site, the first notification will be sent after 60 days. If the user confirms that the site is in use at that time, another 60 days will pass before the user gets another notification.

3. In the Check for unused site collections, and send notices ____ and run the check at ____ boxes, specify daily, weekly, or monthly, and then specify the time of day to run the check.
4. Click OK.

You must enable and configure e-mail confirmation notices before you can enable automatic deletion.

1. Enable and configure e-mail confirmation notices.
2. Select the Automatically delete the site collection if use is not confirmed check box.
3. In the Delete the web after sending ___ notices box, specify how many e-mail notifications to send before deleting the site.
4. Click OK.