When creating a new Site Collection by PowerShell, we have the option to apply the Site Template Directly, however, you must know the Template ID for that site.
For example, you will need to give PowerShell the #STS1 to create a team site.
Let’s see which template made it through. To get the list of all available templates and a few obsolete ones (as they are just supporting the previous version leftover). You can get that list by running Get-SpWebTemplate in the PowerShell window.
| Template ID | Title | Description | Display Category | Compatibility Level |
| GLOBAL#0 | Global template | This template is used for initializing a new site. | 15 | |
| STS#3 | Team site | A site with no connection to an Office 365 Group. | 15 | |
| STS#0 | Team site (classic experience) | A site with a classic experience on the home page and no connection to an Office 365 Group. | 15 | |
| STS#1 | Blank Site | A blank site for you to customize based on your requirements. | 15 | |
| STS#2 | Document Workspace | A site for colleagues to work together on a document. It provides a document library for storing the primary document and supporting files, a tasks list for assigning to-do items, and a links list for resources related to the document. | 15 | |
| MPS#0 | Basic Meeting Workspace | A site to plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda, meeting attendees, and documents | 15 | |
| MPS#1 | Blank Meeting Workspace | A blank meeting site for you to customize based on your requirements. | 15 | |
| MPS#2 | Decision Meeting Workspace | A site for meetings that track status or make decisions. It provides lists for creating tasks, storing documents, and recording decisions. | Meetings | 15 |
| MPS#3 | Social Meeting Workspace | A site to plan social occasions. It provides lists for tracking attendees, providing directions, and storing pictures of the event. | Meetings | 15 |
| MPS#4 | Multipage Meeting Workspace | A site to plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda and meeting attendees in addition to two blank pages for you to customize based on your requirements. | Meetings | 15 |
| CENTRALADMIN#0 | Central Admin Site | A site for central administration. It provides Web pages and links for application and operations management. | 15 | |
| WIKI#0 | Wiki Site | A site for a community to brainstorm and share ideas. It provides Web pages that can be quickly edited to record information and then linked together through keywords | Collaboration | 15 |
| BLOG#0 | Blog | A site for a person or team to post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on. | Collaboration | 15 |
| SGS#0 | Group Work Site | This template provides a groupware solution that enables teams to create, organize, and share information quickly and easily. It includes Group Calendar, Circulation, Phone-Call Memo, the Document Library and the other basic lists. | Collaboration | 15 |
| TENANTADMIN#0 | Tenant Admin Site | A site for tenant administration. It provides Web pages and links for self-serve administration. | 15 | |
| APP#0 | App Template | A base template for app development. It provides a minimal set of features needed for an app. | 15 | |
| APPCATALOG#0 | App Catalog Site | A site for sharing apps for SharePoint and Office | 15 | |
| ACCSRV#0 | Access Services Site | Microsoft Access Server | Collaboration | 15 |
| ACCSVC#0 | Access Services Site Internal | Microsoft Access Server Internal | Collaboration | 15 |
| ACCSVC#1 | Access Services Site | Microsoft Access Server | Collaboration | 15 |
| BDR#0 | Document Center | A site to centrally manage documents in your enterprise. | Enterprise | 15 |
| TBH#0 | In-Place Hold Policy Center | A site to manage policies to preserve content for a fixed period of time. | Enterprise | 15 |
| DEV#0 | Developer Site | A site for developers to build, test and publish apps for Office | Collaboration | 15 |
| EDISC#0 | eDiscovery Center | A site to manage the preservation, search, and export of content for legal matters and investigations. | Enterprise | 15 |
| EDISC#1 | eDiscovery Case | This template creates an eDiscovery case. Users create locations where they can preserve or export data. | Enterprise | 15 |
| OFFILE#0 | (obsolete) Records Center | (obsolete) This template creates a site designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also lets you manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository. | Enterprise | 15 |
| OFFILE#1 | Records Center | This template creates a site designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also lets you manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository. | Enterprise | 15 |
| OSRV#0 | Shared Services Administration Site | This template creates a site for administering shared services | 15 | |
| PPSMASite#0 | PerformancePoint | A site for presenting PerformancePoint dashboards and scorecards. The site also includes links to PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer and storage for dashboard content such as analytic charts, reports, KPIs, and strategy maps. | Enterprise | 15 |
| BICenterSite#0 | Business Intelligence Center | A site for presenting Business Intelligence content in SharePoint. | Enterprise | 15 |
| PWA#0 | Project Web App Site | Microsoft Project Web App | Collaboration | 15 |
| PWS#0 | Microsoft Project Site | A site that supports team collaboration on projects. This site includes documents, issues, risks, and deliverables which may be linked to tasks in Project Web App. | Collaboration | 15 |
| REVIEWCTR#0 | Review Center | Review center is used to manage the review process related items. | Enterprise | 15 |
| POLICYCTR#0 | Compliance Policy Center | Use the Document Deletion Policy Center to manage policies that can delete documents after a specified period of time. These policies can then be assigned to specific site collections or to site collection templates. | Enterprise | 15 |
| SPS#0 | SharePoint Portal Server Site | This template is obsolete. | 15 | |
| SPSPERS#0 | SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | This web template defines a Personal Space for an individual participating on a SharePoint Portal. | 15 | |
| SPSPERS#2 | Storage And Social SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | This web template defines a minimal Personal Space with both Social and Storage features for an individual participating on a SharePoint Portal. | 15 | |
| SPSPERS#3 | Storage Only SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | This web template defines a minimal Personal Space with Storage features for an individual participating on a SharePoint Portal. | 15 | |
| SPSPERS#4 | Social Only SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | This web template defines a minimal Personal Space with Social features for an individual participating on a SharePoint Portal. | 15 | |
| SPSPERS#5 | Empty SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | This web template defines an empty Personal Space. | 15 | |
| SPSPERS#6 | Storage And Social SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | This web template defines a minimal Personal Space with Storage and on-demand Social features for an individual participating on a SharePoint Portal. | 15 | |
| SPSPERS#7 | Storage And Social SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | This web template defines a minimal Personal Space with Storage, Social and Multilingual User Interface features for an individual participating on a SharePoint Portal. | 15 | |
| SPSPERS#8 | Storage And Social SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | This web template defines a minimal Personal Space with Storage, on-demand Social and Multilingual User Interface features for an individual participating on a SharePoint Portal. | 15 | |
| SPSPERS#9 | Storage And Social SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | This web template defines a minimal Personal Space with Storage, on-demand Social with document parser disabled at web level features for an individual participating on a SharePoint Portal. | 15 | |
| SPSPERS#10 | Storage And Social SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | This web template defines a minimal Personal Space with Storage, on-demand Social and Multilingual User Interface with document parser disabled at web level features for an individual participating on a SharePoint Portal. | 15 | |
| SPSMSITE#0 | Personalization Site | A site for delivering personalized views, data, and navigation from this site collection into My Site. It includes personalization specific Web Parts and navigation that is optimized for My Site sites. | Enterprise | 15 |
| SPSTOC#0 | Contents area Template | This template is obsolete. | 15 | |
| SPSTOPIC#0 | Topic area template | This template is obsolete. | 15 | |
| SPSNEWS#0 | News Site | This template is obsolete. | 15 | |
| CMSPUBLISHING#0 | Publishing Site | A blank site for expanding your Web site and quickly publishing Web pages. Contributors can work on draft versions of pages and publish them to make them visible to readers. The site includes document and image libraries for storing Web publishing assets. | Publishing | 15 |
| BLANKINTERNET#0 | Publishing Site | This template creates a site for publishing Web pages on a schedule, with workflow features enabled. By default, only Publishing subsites can be created under this site. A Document and Picture Library are included for storing Web publishing assets. | Publishing | 15 |
| BLANKINTERNET#1 | Press Releases Site | This template creates the Press Releases subsite for an Internet-facing corporate presence website. | Publishing | 15 |
| BLANKINTERNET#2 | Publishing Site with Workflow | A site for publishing Web pages on a schedule by using approval workflows. It includes document and image libraries for storing Web publishing assets. By default, only sites with this template can be created under this site. | Publishing | 15 |
| SPSNHOME#0 | News Site | A site for publishing news articles and links to news articles. It includes a sample news page and an archive for storing older news items. | Publishing | 15 |
| SPSSITES#0 | Site Directory | A site for listing and categorizing important sites in your organization. It includes different views for categorized sites, top sites, and a site map. | Enterprise | 15 |
| SPSCOMMU#0 | Community area template | This template is obsolete. | 15 | |
| SPSREPORT CENTER#0 |
Report Center | A site for creating, managing, and delivering Web pages, dashboards, and key performance indicators that communicate metrics, goals, and business intelligence information. | Enterprise | 15 |
| SPSPORTAL#0 | Collaboration Portal | A starter site hierarchy for an intranet divisional portal. It includes a home page, a News site, a Site Directory, a Document Center, and a Search Center with Tabs. Typically, this site has nearly as many contributors as readers and is used to host team sites. | Publishing | 15 |
| SRCHCEN#0 | Enterprise Search Center | A site focused on delivering an enterprise-wide search experience. Includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to four search results page experiences: one for general searches, one for people searches, one for conversation searches, and one for video searches. You can add and customize new results pages to focus on other types of search queries. | Enterprise | 15 |
| PROFILES#0 | Profiles | This template creates a profile site that includes page layout with zones | 15 | |
| BLANKINTERNET CONTAINER#0 |
Publishing Portal | A starter site hierarchy for an Internet-facing site or a large intranet portal. This site can be customized easily with distinctive branding. It includes a home page, a sample press releases subsite, a Search Center, and a login page. Typically, this site has many more readers than contributors, and it is used to publish Web pages with approval workflows. | Publishing | 15 |
| SPSMSITEHOST#0 | My Site Host | A site used for hosting personal sites (My Sites) and the public People Profile page. This template needs to be provisioned only once per User Profile Service Application, please consult the documentation for details. | Enterprise | 15 |
| ENTERWIKI#0 | Enterprise Wiki | A site for publishing knowledge that you capture and want to share across the enterprise. It provides an easy content editing experience in a single location for co-authoring content, discussions, and project management. | Publishing | 15 |
| PROJECTSITE#0 | Project Site | A site for managing and collaborating on a project. This site template brings all status, communication, and artifacts relevant to the project into one place. | Collaboration | 15 |
| PRODUCTCAT ALOG#0 |
Product Catalog | A site for managing product catalog data which can be published to an internet-facing site through search. The product catalog can be configured to support product variants and multilingual product properties. The site includes admin pages for managing faceted navigation for products. | Publishing | 15 |
| COMMUNITY#0 | Community Site | A place where community members discuss topics of common interest. Members can browse and discover relevant content by exploring categories, sorting discussions by popularity or by viewing only posts that have the best reply. Members gain reputation points by participating in the community, such as starting discussions and replying to them, liking posts and specifying best replies. | Collaboration | 15 |
| COMMUNITY PORTAL#0 |
Community Portal | A site for discovering communities. | Enterprise | 15 |
| GROUP#0 | Team site | Share documents, have conversations with your team, keep track of events, manage tasks, and more with a site connected to an Office 365 Group. | Collaboration | 15 |
| POINTPUBLISHING HUB#0 |
PointPublishing Hub | A site template used to create a pointpublishing hub site. | Enterprise | 15 |
| POINTPUBLISHING PERSONAL#0 |
Personal blog | A site template used to create a pointpublishing personal site. | Enterprise | 15 |
| POINTPUBLISHING PERSONAL#1 |
Personal blog | A site template used to create a pointpublishing personal blog site. | Enterprise | 15 |
| POINTPUBLISHING TOPIC#0 |
PointPublishing Topic | A site template used to create a pointpublishing topic site. | Enterprise | 15 |
| SITEPAGEPUBLISH ING#0 |
Communication site | Publish dynamic, beautiful content to people in your organization to keep them informed and engaged on topics, events, or projects. | Publishing | 15 |
| SRCHCENTE RLITE#0 |
Basic Search Center | A site focused on delivering a basic search experience. Includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to a search results page, and an advanced search page. This Search Center will not appear in the navigation. | Enterprise | 15 |
| SRCHCENTER LITE#1 |
Basic Search Center | The Search Center template creates pages dedicated to searching. The main welcome page features a simple search box in the center of the page. The template includes search results and an advanced search page. This Search Center will not appear in the navigation. | Enterprise | 15 |
| visprus#0 | Visio Process Repository | A site for viewing, sharing, and storing Visio process diagrams. It includes a versioned document library and templates for Basic Flowcharts, Cross-functional Flowcharts, and BPMN diagrams. | Enterprise | 15 |
| GLOBAL#0 | Global template | This template is used for initializing a new site. | 14 | |
| STS#0 | Team Site | A site for teams to quickly organize, author, and share information. It provides a document library, and lists for managing announcements, calendar items, tasks, and discussions. | Collaboration | 14 |
| STS#1 | Blank Site | A blank site for you to customize based on your requirements. | Collaboration | 14 |
| STS#2 | Document Workspace | A site for colleagues to work together on a document. It provides a document library for storing the primary document and supporting files, a tasks list for assigning to-do items, and a links list for resources related to the document. | Collaboration | 14 |
| MPS#0 | Basic Meeting Workspace | A site to plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda, meeting attendees, and documents. | Meetings | 14 |
| MPS#1 | Blank Meeting Workspace | A blank meeting site for you to customize based on your requirements. | Meetings | 14 |
| MPS#2 | Decision Meeting Workspace | A site for meetings that track status or make decisions. It provides lists for creating tasks, storing documents, and recording decisions. | Meetings | 14 |
| MPS#3 | Social Meeting Workspace | A site to plan social occasions. It provides lists for tracking attendees, providing directions, and storing pictures of the event. | Meetings | 14 |
| MPS#4 | Multipage Meeting Workspace | A site to plan, organize, and capture the results of a meeting. It provides lists for managing the agenda and meeting attendees in addition to two blank pages for you to customize based on your requirements. | Meetings | 14 |
| CENTRALAD MIN#0 |
Central Admin Site | A site for central administration. It provides Web pages and links for application and operations management. | 14 | |
| WIKI#0 | Wiki Site | A site for a community to brainstorm and share ideas. It provides Web pages that can be quickly edited to record information and then linked together through keywords | Collaboration | 14 |
| BLOG#0 | Blog | A site for a person or team to post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on. | Collaboration | 14 |
| SGS#0 | Group Work Site | This template provides a groupware solution that enables teams to create, organize, and share information quickly and easily. It includes Group Calendar, Circulation, Phone-Call Memo, the Document Library and the other basic lists. | Collaboration | 14 |
| TENANTADMIN#0 | Tenant Admin Site | A site for tenant administration. It provides Web pages and links for self-serve administration. | 14 | |
| ACCSRV#0 | Access Services Site | Microsoft Access Server | Collaboration | 14 |
| ACCSRV#1 | Assets Web Database | Create an assets database to keep track of assets, including asset details and owners. | Web Databases | 14 |
| ACCSRV#3 | Charitable Contributions Web Database | Create a database to track information about fundraising campaigns including donations made by contributors, campaign-related events, and pending tasks. | Web Databases | 14 |
| ACCSRV#4 | Contacts Web Database | Create a contacts database to manage information about people that your team works with, such as customers and partners. | Web Databases | 14 |
| ACCSRV#6 | Issues Web Database | Create an issues database to manage a set of issues or problems. You can assign, prioritize, and follow the progress of issues from start to finish. | Web Databases | 14 |
| ACCSRV#5 | Projects Web Database | Create a project tracking database to track multiple projects, and assign tasks to different people. | Web Databases | 14 |
| BDR#0 | Document Center | A site to centrally manage documents in your enterprise. | Enterprise | 14 |
| OFFILE#0 | (obsolete) Records Center | (obsolete) This template creates a site designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also lets you manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository. | Enterprise | 14 |
| OFFILE#1 | Records Center | This template creates a site designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also lets you manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository. | Enterprise | 14 |
| OSRV#0 | Shared Services Administration Site | This template creates a site for administering shared services | 14 | |
| PPSMASite#0 | PerformancePoint | A site for presenting PerformancePoint dashboards and scorecards. The site also includes links to PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer and storage for dashboard content such as analytic charts, reports, KPIs, and strategy maps. | Enterprise | 14 |
| BICenterSite#0 | Business Intelligence Center | A site for presenting Business Intelligence Center. | Enterprise | 14 |
| PWA#0 | Project Web App Site | Microsoft Project Web App | Collaboration | 14 |
| PWS#0 | Microsoft Project Site | A site that supports team collaboration on projects. This site includes Project Documents, Project Issues, Project Risks, and Project Deliverables lists which may be linked to tasks in Microsoft Project Server 2010. | Collaboration | 14 |
| SPS#0 | SharePoint Portal Server Site | This template is obsolete. | 14 | |
| SPSPERS#0 | SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space | This web template defines a Personal Space for an individual participating on a SharePoint Portal. | 14 | |
| SPSMSITE#0 | Personalization Site | A site for delivering personalized views, data, and navigation from this site collection into My Site. It includes personalization specific Web Parts and navigation that is optimized for My Site sites. | Enterprise | 14 |
| SPSTOC#0 | Contents area Template | This template is obsolete. | 14 | |
| SPSTOPIC#0 | Topic area template | This template is obsolete. | 14 | |
| SPSNEWS#0 | News Site | This template is obsolete. | 14 | |
| CMSPUBLISH ING#0 |
Publishing Site | A blank site for expanding your Web site and quickly publishing Web pages. Contributors can work on draft versions of pages and publish them to make them visible to readers. The site includes document and image libraries for storing Web publishing assets. | Publishing | 14 |
| BLANKINTER NET#0 |
Publishing Site | This template creates a site for publishing Web pages on a schedule, with workflow features enabled. By default, only Publishing subsites can be created under this site. A Document and Picture Library are included for storing Web publishing assets. | Publishing | 14 |
| BLANKINTER NET#1 |
Press Releases Site | This template creates the Press Releases subsite for an Internet-facing corporate presence website. | Publishing | 14 |
| BLANKINTER NET#2 |
Publishing Site with Workflow | A site for publishing Web pages on a schedule by using approval workflows. It includes document and image libraries for storing Web publishing assets. By default, only sites with this template can be created under this site. | Publishing | 14 |
| SPSNHOME#0 | News Site | A site for publishing news articles and links to news articles. It includes a sample news page and an archive for storing older news items. | Publishing | 14 |
| SPSSITES#0 | Site Directory | A site for listing and categorizing important sites in your organization. It includes different views for categorized sites, top sites, and a site map. | Enterprise | 14 |
| SPSCOMMU#0 | Community area template | This template is obsolete. | 14 | |
| SPSREPORT | Report Center | A site for creating, managing, and delivering Web pages, dashboards, and key performance indicators that communicate metrics, goals, and business intelligence information. | Enterprise | 14 |
| CENTER#0 | ||||
| SPSPORTAL#0 | Collaboration Portal | A starter site hierarchy for an intranet divisional portal. It includes a home page, a News site, a Site Directory, a Document Center, and a Search Center with Tabs. Typically, this site has nearly as many contributors as readers and is used to host team sites. | Publishing | 14 |
| SRCHCEN#0 | Enterprise Search Center | A site for delivering the search experience. The welcome page includes a search box with two tabs: one for general searches, and another for searches for information about people. You can add and customize tabs to focus on other search scopes or result types. | Enterprise | 14 |
| PROFILES#0 | Profiles | This template creates a profile site that includes page layout with zones | 14 | |
| BLANKINTERNET | Publishing Portal | A starter site hierarchy for an Internet-facing site or a large intranet portal. This site can be customized easily with distinctive branding. It includes a home page, a sample press releases subsite, a Search Center, and a login page. Typically, this site has many more readers than contributors, and it is used to publish Web pages with approval workflows. | Publishing | 14 |
| CONTAINER#0 | ||||
| SPSMSITEHOST#0 | My Site Host | A site used for hosting personal sites (My Sites) and the public People Profile page. This template needs to be provisioned only once per User Profile Service Application, please consult the documentation for details. | Enterprise | 14 |
| ENTERWIKI#0 | Enterprise Wiki | A site for publishing knowledge that you capture and want to share across the enterprise. It provides an easy content editing experience in a single location for co-authoring content, discussions, and project management. | Publishing | 14 |
| SRCHCENTER LITE#0 |
Basic Search Center | A site for delivering the search experience. The site includes pages for search results and advanced searches. | Enterprise | 14 |
| SRCHCENTER LITE#1 |
Basic Search Center | The Search Center template creates pages dedicated to searching. The main welcome page features a simple search box in the center of the page. The template includes a search result and an advanced search page. This Search Center will not appear in the navigation. | Enterprise | 14 |
| SRCHCENTER FAST#0 |
FAST Search Center | A site for delivering the FAST search experience. The welcome page includes a search box with two tabs: one for general searches, and another for searches for information about people. You can add and customize tabs to focus on other search scopes or result types. | Enterprise | 14 |
| visprus#0 | Visio Process Repository | A site for teams to quickly view, share, and store Visio process diagrams. It provides a versioned document library for storing process diagrams, and lists for managing announcements, tasks, and review discussions. | Collaboration | 14 |
