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Brass Contributor

Dec 07, 2016

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Clone SharePoint Site

I have to create a couple of SharePoint Sites for different groups but want them to all look the same. Will saving a site as a template allow me to clone the site for multiple creations? This is for ...

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Andrew Gilleran
Dec 08, 2016
Good to know. Did some Googling and found this useful video:
https://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/OfficeDevPnP/PnP-Provisioning-Engine-Introducing-PnP-file-type-for-template-handling

And some other useful links:
http://nickvandenheuvel.eu/tag/site-provisioning/

http://www.erwinmcm.com/getting-started-with-the-office-365-developer-patterns-and-practices-powershell-cmdlets/

Anonymous

Dec 08, 2016

Would not use Save Site AS template as it is also overwriting things you do not want to overwrite please use PNP instead

Andrew Gilleran

Iron Contributor

Dec 08, 2016

Good to know. Did some Googling and found this useful video:
https://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/OfficeDevPnP/PnP-Provisioning-Engine-Introducing-PnP-file-type-for-template-handling

And some other useful links:
http://nickvandenheuvel.eu/tag/site-provisioning/

http://www.erwinmcm.com/getting-started-with-the-office-365-developer-patterns-and-practices-powershell-cmdlets/

jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Dec 08, 2016
Yeap, that's the way to go....in summary: use remote provisioning pattern to deploy your sites based on a site template you have previously created and extracted once is ready
- Brian Knutson
  Brass Contributor
  Dec 12, 2016
  Is PnP also a good method for trying to creating backups? We want to create backups so we can make non-live changes to SharePoint and deploy them when we are ready. Thanks for your guy's help! Its been awesome and I love the design of the Tech Community Site. Wish they made an App for this as well!