Using Get-SPWebTemplate to list available site templates in SharePoint 2013

In this tech-short we will go over a simple yet effective way to list out the available site templates in SharePoint 2013.

Using the New-SPSite PowerShell cmdlet allows you to specify the name of a template to use. In my case I was unaware of the name of available templates in my SharePoint installation.  Using the Get-SPWebTemplate command to produce a list for me.

Steps

1. Open the SharePoint 2013 Management Shell
2. The the following command: Get-SPWebTemplate | Sort-Object “Name”

The results are a list Templates which could be used in this environment.

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If you wanted to do the same with PowerShell locally or remote the following steps can be taken.

Open PowerShell and issue the following commands:

1. New-PSSession -ComputerName SharePoint
2. Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell
3. Get-SPWebTemplate | Sort-Object “Name”