Thanks for attending my presentation at this month’s Granite State SharePoint User Group meeting!
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Notice anything missing from your Site Settings page recently? If you’re in a SharePoint site on Office 365, Microsoft has quietly (with a loud response from the blogosphere) removed the Save Site as Template option. Using this classic option, which places a WSP file in the site collection’s solution gallery, is supposed to provide an easy way for an end user to re-use the configuration of a site.
Microsoft, as far as I know at this time, has yet to officially deprecate this functionality from SharePoint Online. It is still intact with SharePoint 2013.
They are hiding this from you for various technical reasons in favor of more sustainable site templating practices. I could explain them all if it wasn’t mostly outside my wheelhouse… It has to do with SharePoint Apps, upgradability, etc. What matters at the moment for a site administrator is that there is currently no longer a user-accessible option to template a site, with or without content. Or is there?
Some posts are out there that describe adjusting or adding the SaveSiteAsTemplateEnabled property of the site to TRUE via PowerShell or SharePoint Designer. This appears to not be necessary except in the case of enabling SharePoint’s publishing feature(s).
I conducted a test today on a plain site based on an OOTB team site template as well as a plain site based on an OOTB project site template. The page for saving a site as a template still exists if you append the following:
/_layouts/15/savetmpl.aspxto the URL of your site. Voila! Your familiar page appears.
Using this method, I was able to successfully generate and save a site template in the solution gallery from each of my sample sites.
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Thanks for attending my session at the inagural SharePoint Saturday Connecticut!
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Thanks for attending my session at Enterprise Search & Discovery (co-located with KMWorld)!
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Thanks for attending my session at InfoGovCon!
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Thanks for attending my session at InfoGovCon!
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The go-to tool for trapsing through SharePoint’s ULS logs has always been ULS Viewer, attributed to Daniel Winter (Blog | Twitter) at Microsoft. However, obtaining this tool has recently become a problem because http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer no longer brings you to a place you can download it.
Apparently Microsoft has retired the MSDN Archive Gallery which hosted this tool.
I am glad, in this case, that I am slightly OCD and save all of my downoadable installers in an organized manner and back them up. Thus, I can make avaiable the latest copy of ULS Viewer that was available (version 2.0.3530.27850 10/09/2009), as far as I know. According to the license that accompanied the download and applied to the MSDN Archive Gallery, this is legal for me to distribute here. These are the original unaltered files with modification dates from 2012 when I downloaded them.
The ZIP archive contains the two original files–a Word document describing the tool, and the executable file.
A good overview of the tool is avaiable in this article or this blog post. There are, of course, other log viewer tools for SharePoint that are out there. I encourage you to try them out to see which one works best for you.
Please direct any questions regarding the retirement of the MSDN Archive Gallery to ArchiveInfo@microsoft.com.
- Source code files are governed by the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
- Binary files are governed by the MSDN Code Gallery Binary License
- Documentation files are governed by the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
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