In my previous article I provided a list of all the common used web templates in SharePoint 2013. For demo purposes it can be handy to spin up a copy of all these templates and later easy remove them. Using PowerShell we can accomplish this with the snippets provided below. Change the parameters under “Configuration” to match your own environment.
Create new site collections
This snippet will create a new site collection for each of the web templates.
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell # Configuration $webApp = "http://intranet.contoso.com" $managedPath = "sites" $siteOwner = "contoso\sp_admin" $languageId = 1033 # Create site collections for demo Write "Create demo sites" Start-SPAssignment -Global New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-team-site" -Name "Team Site" -Template "STS#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-blog" -Name "Blog" -Template "BLOG#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-dev-site" -Name "Developer Site" -Template "DEV#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-project-iste" -Name "Project Site" -Template "PROJECTSITE#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-community-site" -Name "Community Site" -Template "COMMUNITY#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-document-center" -Name "Document Center" -Template "BDR#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-ediscovery-center" -Name "eDiscovery Center" -Template "EDISC#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-records-center" -Name "Records Center" -Template "OFFILE#1" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-bi-center" -Name "Business Intelligence Center" -Template "BICenterSite#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-ent-search-center" -Name "Enterprise Search Center" -Template "SRCHCEN#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-mysite-host" -Name "My Site Host" -Template "SPSMSITEHOST#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-community-portal" -Name "Community Portal" -Template "COMMUNITYPORTAL#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-basic-search-center" -Name "Basic Search Center" -Template "SRCHCENTERLITE#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-visio-process-rep" -Name "Visio Process Repository" -Template "visprus#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-pub-portal" -Name "Publishing Portal" -Template "BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-ent-wiki" -Name "Enterprise Wiki" -Template "ENTERWIKI#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId New-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-prod-catalog" -Name "Product Catalog" -Template "PRODUCTCATALOG#0" -OwnerAlias $siteOwner -Language $languageId Stop-SPAssignment -Global
Clean up and remove all the sites
This snippet will delete all the site collections created with the snippet above.
# Configuration $webApp = "http://intranet.contoso.com" $managedPath = "sites" $siteOwner = "contoso\sp_admin" $languageId = 1033 # Remove site collections Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-team-site" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-blog" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-dev-site" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-project-site" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-community-site" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-document-center" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-ediscovery-center" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-records-center" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-bi-center" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-ent-search-center" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-mysite-host" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-community-portal" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-basic-search-center" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-visio-process-rep" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-pub-portal" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-ent-wiki" -Confirm:$false Remove-SPSite "$webApp/$managedPath/demo-prod-catalog" -Confirm:$false
Summary
This article demonstrated how easy we can create a copy of all the common used web templates in SharePoint for demo purposes, and later clean it up.
