Installing Windows SharePoint Services Application Template Core and All Templates

Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template Core and All Templates

This article can be used in conjunction with both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 aka MOSS 2007

If you don't already know, Microsoft has some advanced application templates you can download to your SharePoint Farm, I have also created some batch files below to help speed up the installation process. These templates can expedite implementation times and have some great new Server Admin Templates and Site Admin Templates to include:

• Server Admin Application Templates:
  These are created as site definitions, and you need to be a Farm admin to install.
  1. Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management
     A site for teams to share information on when team members will be away from the office and who to contact for issues.
  2. Help Desk
     A site for teams to submit and manage customer support issues.  It provides lists to track service request history and includes a knowledge base.
  3. Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects
     A site for teams to track multiple projects.  It provides lists to track general project information, project tasks, and project issues.
  4. Inventory Tracking
     A site to track inventory items, levels, sales, and orders.
  5. Bug Database
     A site for teams to track bugs in their shared software projects.
  6. IT Team Workspace
     A site for an IT team site to manage incoming issues, projects, and bugs.
  7. Call Center
     A site for teams to track customer support calls.  It provides lists to track customers, service request history and includes a knowledge base.
  8. Job Requisition and Interview Management
     A site for teams to manage their job requisitions, candidates, and interviews.
  9. Change Request Management
     A site for teams to track change requests in multiple projects.  It provides lists to track change requests, general project information, project tasks, project issues, and project risks.
  10. Knowledge Base
      A site to manage and create knowledge assets within an organization.
  11. Compliance Process Support Site
      A site for teams to help plan compliance processes.
  12. Lending Library
      A site to track the assets of a team lending library.
  13. Contacts Management
      A site for teams to track their shared contacts.
  14. Physical Asset Tracking and Management
      A site for teams to track their existing physical assets and manage the process of proposing new assets.
  15. Document Library and Review
      A site for teams to store documents and provide feedback on a per-version basis.
  16. Project Tracking Workspace
      A site that supports team collaboration on projects.  This site includes Project Documents, Project Issues, Project Risks, and Project Deliverables lists which may be linked to tasks in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.
  17. Event Planning
      A site for teams to plan and manage events like conferences.
  18. Room and Equipment Reservations
      A site for teams to manage the use of shared rooms and equipment.
  19. Expense Reimbursement and Approval Site
      A site for teams to submit and manage expense reports.
  20. Sales Lead Pipeline
      A site for sales teams to track contacts, accounts, leads, and opportunities.
      

• Site Admin Templates:
  These Site admin templates can be installed by individual site administrators in a template gallery without requiring farm administration access (readme_stp.txt). Or see the batch file section below for SharePoint Farm Administrators
  1. Board of Directors
  2. Employee Training Scheduling and Materials
  3. Business Performance Rating
  4. Equity Research
  5. Case Management for Government Agencies
  6. Integrated Marketing Campaign Tracking
  7. Classroom Management
  8. Manufacturing Process Management
  9. Clinical Trial Initiation and Management
  10. New Store Opening
  11. Competitive Analysis Site
  12. Product and Marketing Requirements Planning
  13. Discussion Database
  14. Request for Proposal
  15. Disputed Invoice Management
  16. Sports League
  17. Employee Activities Site
  18. Team Work Site
  19. Employee Self-Service Benefits
  20. Timecard Management

Download them here…

http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5807B5EF-57A1-47CB-8666-78C1363F127D&displaylang=en

After you download and extract them for the purpose of this article, I am using the c:\temp directory; you can download and replace the ApplicationTemplateCore.wsp now in your temp directory to the latest ApplicationTemplateCore.wsp version found here…

http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C1039E13-94DA-4D7D-8CAE-3B96FA5A4045&displaylang=en#Overview

After you have downloaded and extracted the files to your temp directory I have created the following batch files to expedite your installation. Remember you must be a Farm administrator to install using these methods, but once you do they will be universally available and you will now have two new tabs called Application Templates and Custom under your create new site Template Selection (see images at end of article).

This will install and deploy the .wsp Files
Copy and create a new text document called installWSP.txt and paste in the following results and change the .txt extension to .bat and double click to execute.

And remember this is assuming you have installed to the default SharePoint installation directory, otherwise change the push path accordingly.

pushd "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN\"
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\ApplicationTemplateCore.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution  -name "ApplicationTemplateCore.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\AbsenceVacationSchedule.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "AbsenceVacationSchedule.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\BudgetingTrackingMultipleProjects.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "BudgetingTrackingMultipleProjects.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\BugDatabase.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "BugDatabase.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\CallCenter.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "CallCenter.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\ChangeRequest.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "ChangeRequest.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\ComplianceProcessSupport.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "ComplianceProcessSupport.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\ContactsManagement.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "ContactsManagement.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\DocumentLibraryReview.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "DocumentLibraryReview.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\EventPlanning.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "EventPlanning.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\ExpenseReimbursementApproval.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "ExpenseReimbursementApproval.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\HelpDesk.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "HelpDesk.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\InventoryTracking.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "InventoryTracking.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\ITTeamWorkspace.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "ITTeamWorkspace.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\JobRequisition.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "JobRequisition.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\KnowledgeBase.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "KnowledgeBase.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\LendingLibrary.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "LendingLibrary.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\PhysicalAssetTracking.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "PhysicalAssetTracking.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\ProjectTrackingWorkspace.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "ProjectTrackingWorkspace.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\RoomEquipmentReservations.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "RoomEquipmentReservations.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
stsadm.exe -o addsolution  -filename "C:\temp\SalesLeadPipeline.wsp"
stsadm.exe -o deploysolution -name "SalesLeadPipeline.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force
ECHO RESTARTING IIS PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE
PAUSE
IISRESET /NOFORCE
PAUSE

Now if you want to install the .stp files Farm wide then follow the above batch file create, but name it installSTP.bat and pas the following lines in…

pushd "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN\"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\BoardDirectors.stp -title "Board of Directors"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\BusinessPerformance.stp -title "Business Performance Rating"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\CaseManagement.stp -title "Case Management for Government Agencies"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\ClassroomManagement.stp -title "Classroom Management"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\ClinicalTrial.stp -title "Clinical Trial Initiation and Management"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\CompetitiveAnalysis.stp -title "Competitive Analysis Site"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\DiscussionDatabase.stp -title "Discussion Database"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\DisputedInvoice.stp -title "Disputed Invoice Management"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\EmployeeActivities.stp -title "Employee Activities Site"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\EmployeeTraining.stp -title "Employee Training Scheduling and Materials"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\EquityResearch.stp -title "Equity Research"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\ManufacturingProcess.stp -title "Manufacturing Process Management"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\MarketingCampaign.stp -title "Integrated Marketing Campaign Tracking"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\NewStoreOpening.stp -title "New Store Opening"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\ProductPlanning.stp -title "Product and Marketing Requirements Planning"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\RequestForProposal.stp -title "Request for Proposal"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\SportsLeague.stp -title "Sports League"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\TeamWorkSite.stp -title "Team Work Site"
Stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename C:\temp\TimecardManagement.stp -title "Timecard Management"
ECHO RESTARTING IIS PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE
PAUSE
IISRESET /NOFORCE
PAUSE

 

 

To create a new site…

New available templates (Notice new “Application Templates” and “Custom” tabs…

Or download the bat files here, just change .txt to .bat

installSTP.txt (2.06 kb)

installWSP.txt (3.69 kb)