1. Provisioning sites using Web Templates in SharePoint 2010 Chakkaradeep (Chaks) Chandran SharePoint Consultant Microsoft

2. Session Objectives and Takeaways Site Provisioning Methods Web Templates – Getting Started Web Templates – Deep Dive Programmatically accessing web templates Tips and Tricks Demos

3. Site Provisioning Methods Site Definitions webtemp*.xml onet.xml Feature Stapling Site Templates (Save As) Custom Code Custom Site Definitions Provisioning Providers Web Templates Existing Site Definition Elements.xml + onet.xml Features

4. Why Web Templates? Developers want easy way to provision sites Based on standard SharePoint site definitions Something that is completely Feature Based No access to file server (Sandboxed!!!) Cloud Power

5. How to build one? Web Templates Existing Site Definition Elements.xml + onet.xml Features Elements.xml onet.xml

6. Farm or Site? Farm scoped feature Available for the whole farm Site scoped feature Available for a particular site collection

7. demo Web Templates – Level 100 Getting Started

8. Activating Site Features (onet.xml) The SiteFeatures element contains references to site collection features to include in the site template Featureslisted in SiteFeatures elementare activated only during root site creation Featureslisted in SiteFeatures elementare not activated during sub-site creation workaround

9. Activating Site Features (Sandboxed Solutions) When you activate a sandboxed solution: Site features get automatically activated

10. Web Template ID Web Templates Existing Site Definition Elements.xml + onet.xml Features Records the Publishing template ID workaround {featureGUID}#WebTemplateName

11. demo Web Templates – Level 200 Deep Dive

12. Programmatically Accessing Web Templates SharePoint identifies your web template with the following: {FeatureGuid}#WebTemplateName PowerShell – Site Scoped C# PowerShell – Farm Scoped

13. Tips and Tricks Start from a simple site template SharePointRootEMPLATEiteTemplates Farm Scoped – Creating a root site collection Site Scoped – Creating a sub site

14. Tips and Tricks In Web Templates, you can only use Configuration ID 0 The Configuration element in the onet.xml file specifies the various lists and modules Avoid Modules, Use Features Feature Stapling is not available with Web Templates Web Templates do not support Variations

15. Review: Session Objectives and Takeaways Site Provisioning Methods Web Templates – Getting Started Web Templates – Deep Dive Programmatically accessing web templates Tips and Tricks Demos

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19. Track Resources SharePoint and FAST Search VM FAST Search Capacity Planning SharePoint 2010 Capacity Planning Search Topology Upgrade and migration resource center Resource Centers Current SharePoint Public Websites (wssdemo)

20. Resources Learning Microsoft Certification & Training Resources Connect. Share. Discuss. http://newzealand.msteched.com www.microsoft.com/learning Resources for IT Professionals Resources for Developers http://microsoft.com/msdn http://microsoft.com/technet

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