7/06/2009

SharePoint: The template you have chosen is invalid or cannot be found

 

I recently ran into “The template you have chosen is invalid or cannot be found” while creating a site from a template moved from another SharePoint server. The most likely cause is a missing feature on the destination server.

A recent source of this problem has been two recent updates, "Infrastructure Updates to MOSS 2007" and MOSS Service Pack 2 and a feature named S2SiteAdmin.

To find the missing feature use this great tool from CodePlex.com: “STP Inspector”   http://stpinspector.codeplex.com/

This tool will list all of the features needed by the STP file and flag those missing on the SharePoint server.

Note: this tool must be run on the server where you want to use the site template (STP) file.

 

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2 comments:

Madhur said...

Thank you for your review and reference to the STP inspector in your article ...

Madhur

Mike Smith said...

Madhur,

Thank you for the tool. It saved me a lot of time.

Mike

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