We have a Sharepoint 2010 portal that was migrated from 2007. There is one site on it that was created back in version 2007 that is supposed to be used as a "template" when starting a new software project. I put "template" in quotes
since this is really just a Sharepoint site (was never saved as an actual Sharepoint template). So now, in Sharepoint 2010, this site still exists but I cannot export it as a template because the "save site as template" menu is not there (probably
because we have the Sharepoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature enabled). Our Sharepoint admin says that we cannot use this site as a source for creating new sites because this site was created using one of the "fabulous 40" templates
in version 2007 so the only solution is to recreate the whole site in 2010. My question is: is there any way to avoid doing all this work? Is there a way to either save this site as a template or some way to duplicate/copy it when we want to create
a new site based on it? If this is an unghosted site, is there still some reference in it to that original fabulous 40 template? I read somewhere that in order to examine the definition of a site you should append "_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=GetProjSchema"
to the url. I did that and got the schema xml but I could not see anything related to a template for a site. There were references to templates for various document libraries but not the site itself.
thanks,