On a current project, I am looking to provision SharePoint sites only using the API; not through the web UI. Do I still need a webtempxxx.xml file or will the onet and other resources suffice?
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On a current project, I am looking to provision SharePoint sites only using the API; not through the web UI. Do I still need a webtempxxx.xml file or will the onet and other resources suffice?
You can create sites using stsadm or through the API using templates that have the visible property set to “false” in the webtemp*.xml files. The webtemp*.xml files control what templates are visible through the UI, either in Central Admin when creating a site, or when creating subsites.
I probably wouldn’t actually delete the webtemp*.xml files. That just sounds like a bad idea.