Been researching for a while now and have finally decided I need advice.
For my client I need to create a series of custom team sites (40+) with custom branding applied, subsites, custom lists/libraries and views etc. In order to apply a custom master page in SP2010, I have enabled the publishing feature (any ideas how to go about customising master pages for non-publishing sites?). Unfortunately by (MS) design, enabling publishing disables the ability to save the site as a template (which was to be my solution). http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010general/thread/8c66 9cb5-6d27-4911-9c32-30943d2c64de So my question is, what is best practice to achieve a consistent site look and feel for multiple sites. MS blogs indicate that attempting to create a template using _layouts/savetmpl.aspx is not supported and doesn't work with customised css (I tried L). The same blogs suggest using a custom site definition. This make administration easy as I can create a custom "DisplayCategory" that anyone with permission will have access to and provide all of the custom site definitions in there. I think this will work for me but found heaps of sites suggesting this is an upgrade nightmare.. Last option is to create a PowerShell script to do it all, which I am happy to do (and makes it easy to create some of the custom views I have in mind), but I am concerned that future users or administrators wont know about this script (i.e. they might just start from a blank site template instead of using the script). Any suggestions or alternatives??? Thanks Maxine Harwood | Solutions Architect Red Box IT 0410 525 989 | 07 3056 1725 (VoIP) www.redboxit.com.au max...@redboxit.com.au ABN: 96 189 767 742 | ACN: 125 489 278
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