Wednesday, February 26, 2014

How to change the Root Site template in SharePoint

How to change the Root Site template in SharePoint
            


Many times SharePoint administrators face an issue that they need to change the root site template once created. For Example, Root site is created with 
search Template and they want to change it to Team site template, How?

Solution: Follow the below steps to make it possible.

·        Login with your Administrator credential on the root site that you want to change
·        Go to Site Settings --> Site Action --> Delete this site             

·        Click on OK
·        Login with your Administrator credential on Central Administration
·        Go to Application Management --> Create Site Collection
·        You can find the new "/" on Web Site Address
·        create the site with desired template

Note: There is no issue If any packages are already deployed under Root site



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