1. The good, the bad, the ugly
Presented By:
Eric Schrader & Henry Ong
6th Street Consulting
2. Site Templates vs List Templates
Use List Templates For:
Replicating List Schemas (Columns, Settings, Views,
Etc)
Use Site Templates For:
Encapsulating entire sites with Lists, Web Parts, etc.
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3. Site Templates: The Good
Good POC/Mock-up tool
Site Migration Tool
Churn ‘em out like hotcakes
Quickly reproduce sub-sites
« Fantastic 40 » Site Templates
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb407286.aspx
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4. Site Templates: The Bad
• Permissions aren’t saved
• OOB: 10MB max template size
• 500MB max template size using
• stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname max-template-
document-size -propertyvalue 524288000
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5. Site Templates: The Ugly
Underlying components don’t travel well
Content Types
Dataview web parts
Relative links and image paths
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