In this old blog of Tom, he identified the default templates, provide a preview of each, list the features included, and suggest practical uses for them.
Here is the complete list.
Collaboration
The site templates under Collaboration are intended to help teams in an organization work on projects, collaborate on documents, and share information.
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The Team site is an all-purpose template that can be used by any team, large or small, to create, organize, and share business information. You might use the site to store planning and budget documents, track issues and tasks, and share links and contacts with others.What’s included in the template:
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| Blank site | |
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The Blank site template is empty, containing no libraries, lists, or sample content. If you want to create a site from scratch, this template is for you.To add content, you will need to add new libraries, lists, Web parts and so on. You can also use a Web design program, like Office SharePoint Designer, that is compatible with Office SharePoint Server.What’s included in the template:
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| Document Workspace | |
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The Document Workspace template can be used for sharing and managing documents with others. The template includes features that are used to share and update files, keeping others informed on the status of those files.What’s included in the template::
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| Wiki site | |
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The Wiki site template can be used to create a community site for a team or a project. As a wiki, users can quickly and easily add, edit, and delete Web pages on the site.Wikis promote an environment where everyone can brainstorm and share ideas. They are also useful for collaborating on business processes and documents because everyone can contribute to it.What’s included in the template:
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| Blog site | |
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The Blog site template can be used to create a site where users post information quickly and allow others to comment on it, otherwise, known as blogging.Blogs are online journals where users can share ideas quickly in an informal, chronological format. You might create a blog to share a new idea or vision in an engaging journal format, where others can ask questions and add comments.What’s included in the template:
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Meetings
The site templates under Meetings are intended to help teams within an organization manage various types of meetings.
| Basic Meeting Workspace | |
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The Basic Meeting Workspace template can be used to create a site for planning, organizing, and tracking meetings.A meeting workspace is useful for managing a reoccurring meeting, such as a weekly team meeting. There are useful features you can use to track topics, documents, attendees, and so forth.What’s included in the template:
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| Blank Meeting Workspace | |
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The Blank Meeting Workspace template can be used to create a meeting workspace that is initially empty, containing no sample content or features.Add your own libraries, lists, and Web Parts to make this site work for your team meetings.What’s included in the template:
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| Decision Meeting Workspace | |
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The Decision Meeting Workspace template can be used to create a site for meetings that involve reviewing documents and recording decisions.Included in the template are features that help you record decisions and action items based on those decisions. All of this helps a team stay focused on the outcome of a meeting.What’s included in the template:
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| Social Meeting Workspace | |
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The Social Meeting Workspace template can be used to create a site that helps you plan and coordinate social occasions.You can use the template for everything from a team party to a charity event.What’s included in the template:
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| Multipage Meeting Workspace | |
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The Multipage Meeting Workspace template can be used to create a site that helps you plan, organize, and capture the results of a complex meeting or a series of meetings.Use the site to manage meetings that require in-depth supporting materials that need to be stored on separate pages.What’s included in the template:
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Enterprise
The site templates under Enterprise are intended to support enterprise-level document management, records management, and information management needs.
| Document Center | |
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The Document Center template can be used to create a site where you centrally manage a large numbers of documents in your enterprise.The site contains powerful content management features, such as the ability to support large-scale content authoring (50,000 or more documents actively edited), mandatory checkout, versioning, workflows, and content types.What’s included in the template:
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| Records Center | |
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The Records Center template can be used to create a site where you provide records management for your organization.A records management site serves as a central repository where all records are stored, and it supports the records management process (collection, management, disposition, etc.). Such a site can help you comply with governmental or legal regulations.What’s included in the template:
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| Personalization site | |
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The Personalization site template can be used to create a site for delivering personalized views, data, and navigation for My Sites. (My Sites are discussed later in this topic.)The site can be used to expose content that is personalized for or targeted to individual users on their My Sites.What’s included in the template:
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| Site Directory | |
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The Site Directory template can be used to create a site that lists and categorizes important sites in your organization.A site directory can help you if you want to provide site visitors with a central place to view or locate all of the sites in your site collection.What’s included in the template:
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| Report Center | |
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The Report Center template can be used to create a site that serves as a central location for business-intelligence-related content, such as dashboards, Web Parts, key performance indicators (KPI), and business data connectivity technologies.Such a site provides users with a single place to find the latest reports, spreadsheets, and KPI’s that drive their business.What’s included in the template:
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| Search Center with tabs | |
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The Search Center with tabs template can be used to create a search-based site for users. The main Welcome page features a simple search box in the center of the page.The search returns items only from your site and eliminates returns that don’t apply to your search. You can search different collections of information separately using tabs.What’s included in the template:
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| Search Center | |
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The Search Center template can be used to create a search-based site for users. The main Welcome page features a simple search box in the center of the page.The search returns items only from your site and eliminates returns that don’t apply to your search.What’s included in the template:
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| My Site Host | |
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The My Site Host template can be used to create a hosted location for My Sites. (My Sites are discussed later in this topic.)Note: This template is only available when you create a site collection using Central Administration. |
Publishing
The site templates under Publishing are intended to help organizations design, deploy, and manage divisional portal sites, enterprise intranet portals, and public-facing Internet sites. All site templates in this category have publishing features enabled, including the content editor, page editing toolbar, and check out.
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The Publishing site template can be used to create a site where you quickly publish Web pages.As a publishing site, Contributors can work on draft versions of pages and then publish those pages to make them visible to other users.What’s included in the template:
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The Publishing site with workflow template can be used to create a site where you quickly publish Web pages on a schedule using workflows.As a publishing site, Contributors can work on draft versions of pages and then publish those pages to make them visible to other users. With workflows enabled, you can better manage when pages get published by enforcing an approval process.What’s included in the template:
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| News site | |
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The News site template can be used to create a site with news articles that are easy to create and manage.The site can serve as the single place to deliver important and up-to-date information for your entire organization.What’s included in the template:
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| Collaboration Portal | |
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The Collaboration Portal template can be used to create a starter site hierarchy for an intranet divisional portal.A portal site typically hosts numerous team sites, and there will likely be as many contributors as there are readers on the site.What’s included in the template:
Note: This site template is available when you create a site collection in Central Administration. |
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The Publishing Portal template can be used to create a starter site hierarchy for a large intranet portal or Internet-facing site.The site can be customized with distinctive branding to match the look and feel of your organization.What’s included in the template:
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My Site
My Site is a site that is available to every user in an organization. It is included with Office SharePoint Server as a way for employees to store their personal documents, lists, contacts, calendars and more. My Site is not one of the site templates you choose from when you create a new site, but it is included here so that you can consider how you might want to share or promote its content on your site. You may, for example, create a new site that depends on My Site functionality and content, such as the Personalization site and My Site Host templates above.
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My Sites are enabled by default in Office SharePoint Server. Every user in your organization has a unique My Site.Similar to the default site templates, they contain features that can be used and customized to share content with others.What’s included in the template:
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