******************************************************** APPLICATIONS FOR WINDOWS SHAREPOINT SERVICES ******************************************************** ======================================================== To perform the instructions below, you must have Administrator Rights to both the root of the Windows SharePoint Server and to the server box that it lives on. ======================================================== 1. Download the site template EXE file to the server machine 2. Run the EXE file to unpack the Template Files to a location on the server machine 3. Navigate to your top-level Windows SharePoint Services Site 4. Click on Site Settings at the top of the page 5. Click Go To Site Administration under the Administration section 6. Under the Site Collection Galleries section, click on Manage Site Template Gallery 7. Choose Upload Template and browse to the location where you unpacked the site template in step two 8. Give the template a Title and Description ======================================================== In order to create a site using the template you just installed to the gallery, do the following. ======================================================== 1. Navigate to your Windows SharePoint Services Site 2. Click Create on the top link bar 3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select “Sites and Workspaces” 4. Give your site a Title, Description, and URL 5. Change the Permissions or not as appropriate 6. Click Create 7. Select the template you just installed from the list of available templates. 8. Click OK ======================================================== To uninstall the Template, do the following. You must have Administrator Rights to the root of the windows SharePoint Server. ======================================================== 1. Browse to the root site of the site collection 2. Click Site Settings 3. Click Go to Site Administration 4. Click Manage Site Template Gallery 5. Scroll to the Template you want to uninstall 6. Click the Edit icon for that Template 7. Click Delete NOTICE: This will not remove the templates from any sites that were already created using this template. It will only prevent users from creating new sites based on that template.