Re: MS Templates dilemma

One quick way to tell if it's MOSS or WSS would be to open Central Admin &
see if there's a Shared Services Administration link, as that's only
available for MOSS.


"Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O8DfmX3IIHA.1208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It was only an idea so don't accuse anyone at once !

I did check in my WSS 3.0 installation and there was no Publishing
template available to me as I thought (although I checked by Creating a
sub-site under a site that was a Team Site which may have been a bit
lazy).

Also the idea that a Publishing tab meant a Publishing template in
operation was my "deduction" only.

But it's certainly worth checking. It would be certainly normal for MS to
install the (more complicated and pricey) MOSS product rather than for
them to help install the WSS 3.0 product (which local MS generally isn't
interested in as it provides them with little revenue) and they might I
suppose have just done their usual installation without thinking.

Grateful for anyone to come in with a quick method of checking whether its
a WSS 3.0 or a MOSS installation (apart that is for the number of
templates available which is what I'd use).

Mike Walsh



Jack_Feeman wrote:
Wow, MS did help our server group install WSS 3.0. So in view that OUr
top level site shows the Publishing tab, something did not go right in
our installation because we surely didn't ask or purchase MOSS. I will
have them open another ticket with MS to fix the issue. Thanks again
Mike.
Jack

"Mike Walsh" wrote:

The only idea I have is that you (well they :)) have created a site from
the Publishing template rather than the Team Site template.

The main problem with that idea is that it's MOSS that has the Publshing
template not WSS 3.0.


Mike Walsh





Jack_Feeman wrote:
Mike,
Server group said the below did not work for them. Here is some
clarification:
We see all of the stp templates listed while in Central Administration
but as soon as I go out to the site and try to create another site,
they no longer are there. In fact, we get different tabs depending
where we are (considering we have Full Control both on site and in
Central Administration. On Central Administration there is a "Custom"
tab and the stp templates show up. On the top-level site, the "Custom"
tab is replaced with a "Publishing" tab and only the "News Site" under
it.

There is currently a top-level site already created from the Central
Admin when we installed v3 on the farm (url: http://servername). If I
create another site from Central Admin the url will be
http://servername:xxxx/sitename. I really would like to create a new
top-level site on this server based on one of the stp templates that
will have a url similar to: http://servername/sitename (no port
number). Any ideas?

Thanks for the previous help, Mike.

"Jack_Feeman" wrote:

As always, thanks MIke for the quick response. I will apply this my
server group who has access to the stsadm.
Jack

"Mike Walsh" wrote:

The parameter listed here

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=921

might help.

I haven't had any feedback on this item (negative or positive) ...

Mike Walsh
WSS FAQ http://www.wssfaq.com
no questions by e-mail please



Jack_Feeman wrote:
WSS 3.0
Server group installed all 40 templates (both .wsp and .stp). Only
the one I want to create a site with does not show up in the list of
templates under any of the tabs where most of the others are nor did
it show up in the Site Template Gallery (actually none of the
downloaded templates did). The template was the
EmployeeTraining.stp. So I extracted the template from the .exe file
on my desktop and uploaded it to the Site Template Gallery where it
now shows up. How do I create a site based on it since it still does
not show up under the Select a template tab under the Create New
SharePoint Site page? Can't start it from the Gallery so the only
other way is the normal Create>Sites and Workspaces> then select
template from the one listed under the Select a template tabs,
right?

Thanks
Jack


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