The following section contains information about the site templates that are included in SharePoint Server 2010. Although you can use a site template with its default configuration, you can also change the site’s default settings by using the site administration pages, and then saving the site as a new template. In addition, you can modify a template's design and features by using Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 or Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
The following table lists every site template, describes the purpose of each, and indicates whether the template is available at the site collection level, site level, or both. The category that is used to group the templates might be different, depending on the level at which a site is created.
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Template
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Purpose
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Category in Site Collection
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Category in Site
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<Select template later>
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An empty site for which you can select a template later.
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Custom
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N/A
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Assets Web Database
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An assets database to keep track of assets, including asset details and owners.
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N/A
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Web Databases
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Basic Meeting Workspace
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A site on which you can plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda, meeting attendees, and documents.
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Meetings
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Meetings
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Basic Search Center
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A site that provides basic search functionality. The site includes pages for search results and advanced searches. Use this template if you do not require people search or publishing features; if you do require these features, we recommend that you use Enterprise Search Center.
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Search Centers should be separate site collections because they search for information across a company portal or division. If you create a Search Center as a sub-site, you might have to create some workarounds for a full customization. For more information, see Customizing the Search Center.
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Enterprise
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Search
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Blank Meeting Workspace
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A blank meeting site that you can customize based on your requirements.
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Meetings
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Meetings
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Blank Site
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A blank site that you can customize based on your requirements.
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Collaboration
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Blank & Custom
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Blog
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A site on which a person or team can post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on.
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Collaboration
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Content
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Business Intelligence Center
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A site for presenting business intelligence data. It provides document libraries for storing documents, images, data connections, and dashboard Web Parts. It also provides lists for linking content from PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
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Enterprise
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N/A
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Charitable Contributions Web Database
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A database to track information about fundraising campaigns including donations made by contributors, campaign-related events, and pending tasks.
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N/A
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Web Databases
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Contacts Web Database
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A contacts database to manage information about people that your team works with, such as customers and partners.
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N/A
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Web Databases
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Decision Meeting Workspace
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A site on which you can track status or make decisions at meetings. It provides lists to create tasks, store documents, and record decisions.
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Meetings
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Meetings
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Document Center
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A site on which you can centrally manage documents in your enterprise.
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Enterprise
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Content
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Document Workspace
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A site on which colleagues can work together on a document. It provides a document library for storing the primary document and supporting files, a tasks list for assigning to-do items, and a links list to point to resources that are related to the document.
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Collaboration
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Collaboration, Content
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Enterprise Search Center
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A site that provides the search functionality. The welcome page includes a search box that has two tabs: one for general searches and another for searches for information about people. You can add and customize tabs to focus on other search scopes or result types.
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Note:
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Search Centers should be separate site collections because they search for information across a company portal or division. If you create a Search Center as a sub-site, you might have to create some workarounds for a full customization. For more information, see Customizing the Search Center.
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Enterprise
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Search
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Enterprise Wiki
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A site on which you can publish knowledge that you capture and want to share across the enterprise. It provides an easy content editing experience in a single location for co-authoring content, for discussions, and for managing projects.
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Publishing
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Content
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FAST Search Center
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A site for delivering the FAST search experience. The welcome page includes a search box with two tabs: one for general searches and another for searches for information about people. You can add and customize tabs to focus on other search scopes or result types. A refinement option provides a count of each query refiner. This template also provides document preview that shows thumbnails of Microsoft Word 2010 and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 documents. We recommend that you use FAST Search Center if you have the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint SKU.
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Note:
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Search Centers should be separate site collections because they search for information across a company portal or division. If you create a Search Center as a sub-site, you might have to create some workarounds for a full customization. For more information, see Customizing the Search Center.
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Enterprise
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Search
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Group Work Site
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This template provides a groupware solution that teams can use to create, organize, and share information. It includes the Group Calendar, Circulation, Phone-Call Memo, document library and other basic lists.
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Collaboration
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Collaboration
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Issues Web Database
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An issues database to manage a set of issues or problems. You can assign, prioritize, and follow the progress of issues from start to finish.
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N/A
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Web Databases
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Multipage Meeting Workspace
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A site on which you can plan a meeting and capture decisions and other results from the meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda and meeting attendees. It also provides two blank pages that you can customize based on your requirements.
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Meetings
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Meetings
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My Site Host
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A site that hosts personal sites (My Sites) and the public People Profile page. This template has to be provisioned only once per User Profile Service Application.
This template is available only at the site collection level.
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Enterprise
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N/A
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Personalization Site
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A site for delivering personalized views, data, and navigation from this site collection to My Sites. It includes Web Parts that are specific to personalization and navigation that is optimized for My Sites.
This template is available only at the site level.
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N/A
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Blank & Custom
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Projects Web Database
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A project tracking database to track multiple projects, and assign tasks to different people.
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N/A
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Web Databases
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Publishing Portal
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A starter site hierarchy that you can use for an Internet site or a large intranet portal. You can use distinctive branding to customize this site. It includes a home page, a sample press releases site, a Search Center, and a logon page. Typically, this site has many more readers than contributors, and it is used to publish the Web pages by using approval workflows.
This site enables content approval workflows, by default, for a more formal and controlled publishing process. It also restricts the rights of anonymous users so that they can see only content pages, and they cannot see SharePoint Server 2010 application pages.
This template is available only at the site collection level.
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Publishing
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N/A
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Publishing Site
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A blank site for expanding your Web site and quickly publishing Web pages. Contributors can work on draft versions of pages and publish them to make them visible to readers. This site includes document and image libraries for storing Web publishing assets.
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N/A
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Content
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Publishing Site with Workflow
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A site for publishing Web pages on a schedule by using approval workflows. It includes document and image libraries for storing Web publishing assets. By default, only sites that have this template can be created under this site.
This template is available only at the site level when the Publishing Portal template is used to create the top-level site.
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N/A
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Content
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Records Center
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A site that is designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also enables you to manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository.
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Enterprise
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Data
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Social Meeting Workspace
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A site on which you can plan social occasions. It provides lists for tracking attendees, providing directions, and storing pictures of the event.
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Meetings
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Meetings
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Team Site
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A site on which a team can organize, author, and share information. It provides a document library, and lists for managing announcements, calendar items, tasks, and discussions.
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Collaboration
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Collaboration
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Visio Process Repository
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A site on which teams can view, share, and store Visio process diagrams. It provides a versioned document library for storing process diagrams, and lists for managing announcements, tasks, and review discussions.
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Collaboration
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Content
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Some Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site templates, such as the site directory, news, and collaboration portal templates, are not available as an option in SharePoint Server 2010. These templates can still be accessed and used programmatically by developers. These templates are also still available as options in the UI if the SharePoint Server 2010 farm is upgraded from Office SharePoint Server 2007. Otherwise, use the social tagging features in SharePoint Server 2010 to get much of the functionality provided in these templates.