WSS 3.0 simplified template installation process
Here’s and excerpt from an email sent to me by one of my Cincy SBS User Group members and an old friend of TS2, Dale Unroe (see link to his blog below). Hope this helps you (my reader), and thanks for sharing, Dale.
In his BTW section, Dale references the System Health Report, which I’ve been showing in my SB2 events, so I left the path for that in there (but I think it’s also in my tips post), and sorry, Dale, to the best of my knowledge there is no “shortcut” for how to get to the report, nor quicker way to generate it.
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To: Ron
Subject: SharePoint - WSS 3.0 simplified template installation process
Hi Ron,
A while ago a colleague here in Cincinnati lamented to our user group email list that he was having a time getting the Microsoft Fantastic Forty Template pack to install into a WSS 3.0 installation…After much research online I discovered that there were a lot of people who were struggling with installing these templates and the correct usage and syntax of the STSADM commands needed. What resulted was that I created a scripted process that can be done fairly easily, installs all the templates, and takes about 6 minutes to run. Furthermore, additional templates can be dropped into the install directory and they too will get installed. I thought you might find this worthy of passing on to help other Partners with SBS 2008 now that WSS 3.0 is integrated.
Blog post:
http://duitwithsbs.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/sharepoint-application-template-ez-installation-via-script/
Resource Distribution Point:
http://duitsmart.com/sharepoint.aspx
BTW – I was struggling with finding the Vista Reliability and Monitor Report generator UI you had showed us in your last month SB2TS2 visit to Cincinnati. This morning I found it! Have you ever found a quicker way to run this report?
Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Performance Information and Tools -> Advanced Tools -> Generate a system health report
