Manny's Blog

August 16, 2008

@ 12:08 PM

WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Sites

WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 offer many OOTB site definitions for different types of sites. More specifically, the following are OOTB categories and the site definitions available under each category. Note that some of the site definitions are only available while creating site collections.

Collaboration
- Team Site
- Blank Site
- Document Workspace
- Wiki Site
- Blog
- Microsoft Office Project Workspace
Meetings
- Basic Meeting Workspace
- Blank Meeting Workspace
- Decision Meeting Workspace
- Social Meeting Workspace
- Multipage Meeting Workspace
Enterprise
- Document Center *
- Records Center
- Site Directory *
- Report Center * *
- Search Center with Tabs *
- My Site Host
- Search Center
Publishing
- Collaboration Portal *
- Publishing Portal *
- Publishing Site
- Publishing Site with Workflow

* - Available while creating a site collection.

** - Available while creating a sub-site but resulted in an error. Created the same as a site-collection and it worked fine.

It's kind of difficult to remember the default look & feel of an OOTB site which requires one to create a "throw-away" site just to see the look & feel. I have done it many times! This morning I spent some time and created all of the sites on my development machine and have made the screen shots available.