Creating a site collection in 2010 mode in SharePoint 2013
Today I got phoned up by a friend who asked how on earth he could programmatically create a site collection in 2010 mode in SharePoint 2013. Why he wanted to do this I’m not sure, and it’s not the point of this post :)
It’s actually quite easy if you look at the documentation of some of the SPSiteCollection.Add() methods which take an int as a compabilityLevel parameter. Passing in 14 in this parameter will ensure you get the 2010 look and feel. For reference the SPSite.SelfServiceCreateSite() method has similar overloads.
If you want to do it I PowerShell you can use the following command:
And via Central Admin:
It’s actually quite easy if you look at the documentation of some of the SPSiteCollection.Add() methods which take an int as a compabilityLevel parameter. Passing in 14 in this parameter will ensure you get the 2010 look and feel. For reference the SPSite.SelfServiceCreateSite() method has similar overloads.
SPWebApplication webApp = new SPSite(http://host).WebApplication; SPSiteCollection siteCollections = webApp.Sites; uint lcid = 1033; int compatLevel = 14; string webTemplate = "STS#0"; SPSite newSiteCollection = siteCollections.Add("sites/test", "Title", "Description", 1033, compatLevel, webTemplate, "DOMAIN\\User", "Name", "Email_Address", "DOMAIN\\User", "Name", "Email_Address");
If you want to do it I PowerShell you can use the following command:
New-SPSite -Url http://host/sites/test -OwnerAlias "DOMAIN\User" -Template "STS#0" -CompatibilityLevel 14
And via Central Admin:
