How to find out the ID of a site collection .

1. Open the Central Administration


2. Application Management


3. SharePoint Site Management


4. site collection quotas and locks

Select the appropriate site collection  and you will get the ID of that specific site collection



How to find out the ID of a subsite:

1. Save the current site as site template[.STP extension]


2. Save it to disk somewhere.


3. Now, navigate to that location and rename the file to .CAB extension.


4. Extract the CAB file and find the manifest.xml file.


5. Now, in the file check for the site ID/TemplateID string and get the value.


6. Navigate to end of this post for the TemplateID to Name mapping.

How to find out the List ID:

1. Navigate to the SharePoint list using the browser.


2. Select the Settings + List Settings menu command.


3. Copy the URL from the browser address bar into Notepad. It will look something like:

https://personal.collaborationtools.consumer.citigroup.net/personal/ag14178/_layouts/listedit.aspx?List=%7B47F2F5E2%2D6474%2D4929%2DB986%2D64BBE801C97A%7D



Delete everying before and including “List=”.

Change “%7B” to “{”

Change all “%2D” to “-“

Chnage “%7D” to “}”

You are now left with the Id:



{47F2F5E2-6474-4929-B986-64BBE801C97A}