How to find the SharePoint Site Template being Used

How to find the site template of an existing SharePoint site? There are many ways to find the site definition being used for a site, Here are some: 1. Use SharePoint Manager to find the SharePoint site template. Navigate thru the site, and look for "Web Template" as in the below pic…

Convert Subsite to Site Collection and Site Collection to Subsite in SharePoint

During the migration of MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010, wanted to convert some of the large subsites into site collection in a separate content databases. How to convert a subsite to a site collection in SharePoint? sure, Its possible to promote subsite to site collection in SharePoint. Follow th…

Hide Site templates & List Templates in SharePoint

In my SharePoint Farm, I wanted to disable certain site templates in site creation page. Here is the technique for hiding a Site template in SharePoint 2007: There are XML manifest files found on the file system of the web front end.     Look for the file webtemp.xml,webtempsps.xml,etc  in…

Content deployment in MOSS 2007

Content deployment in MOSS 2007: Check out my Presentation Content deployment in MOSS 2007 View more presentations from salaudeenar .

How to display Google map in SharePoint?

In SharePoint, we can display Google Maps without any third party web parts. Here I'm explain how you can insert "Google Maps" maps in your SharePoint site with standard out of the box SharePoint features. You can display Google maps in SharePoint by embedding Google map code in Sha…

How to Add a Link to SharePoint Site Actions Menu

You can create a Custom link in Site Action Menu using CustomAction feature code. My Requirement is to add a new link "Support Center" in Site actions Menu, So that all site owners can easily access the SharePoint Support Center site. Create a folder in 12/14 hive's Features folde…

Add a Custom Group of Actions in SharePoint 2007 Site Settings Page

Requirement: Adding a custom group of actions in SharePoint site settings page. Solution: We can create a feature to achieve this. Here is what I've done: Create a folder"MyCustomAction" under: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEA…