What is Managed Path
Let’s understand what is path first. In SharePoint you have seen some different types of site collection urls within same Web Application like : http://sharepointDemo http://sharepointDemo/subsite http://sharePointDemo/Subsite/SubSubsite http://SharePointDemo/Sites/Contoso http://SharePointDemo/Sites/Contoso/SubSite These different kind of URL structure called path & you can manage these path as per you your organization hierarchy or architecture. Some time you required to create a site collection with name of “Departments” & under this “Department” you might want to create some departments like HR, IT etc. and you want your site collection url should be like http://SharePointDemo/Departments/HR . Managed path is this. Where you can manage site collection path not whole url. Here you can Manage Path for the selected Web Application. In other words, when you creates your first site collection in Web Application you have to provide site collection url un...