SharePoint - Determine the Site Definition used to create a Site Template (.STP)

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Jim picture Jim · Feb 27, 2009 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

A SharePoint site template is basically a saved version the differences between a Site Definition and the current state of a site. I've read that Site Templates can only be applied to sites that use the same Site Definition that was used to create the template.

If you have an STP file, how do you determine which Site Definition was used to create the Site Template?

Answer

sachaa picture sachaa · Mar 2, 2009

STP files are just ZIP-compressed files. If you rename the extension to *.ZIP you can extract the contents and examine the XML files that will contain the info you are looking for.

I don't have a STP file around so I can't tell you exactly what file to look for but I've done that before and is not that hard to find.

Good luck!

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