SharePoint 2013 The 15 Hive and other important directories:
After I installed SharePoint
2013 in My test lab, I come to know that there is some change\Extra folders
included in the path .Find the Details of the Folders and the function of
those. The 15 Hive is a special folder which is created during SharePoint 2013
installation. All the important files for supporting SharePoint framework like
web.config, Features, Web Parts, User Controls, Help Files etc are stored in
the SharePoint 2013 server file system inside the 15 Hive.I explained a brief what Folder do what function as My experiance.
The 15 Hive - Folder
Location:
The 15 Hive folder is located at the following
path
C:\Program Files\Common files\Microsoft
Shared\Web Server Extensions\15
The 15 Hive - Folder
Structure:
The 15 Hive has a definite folder structure
which holds the core SharePoint server files.
ADMISAPI:- It contains soap services for Central
Administration. If this directory is altered, remote site creation and other
methods exposed in the service will not function correctly.
Bin:- The directory contains all the core
binary files, utilities which used by SharePoint Services. command line
tools such as STSADM.EXE also present in this folder.
Client:- This directory contains files that are used
for creating office apps.
Config:- This directory contains files used to
extend IIS Web sites with SharePoint Server. If this directory or its contents
are altered, Web application will not function correctly.
HCCab:- This directory has a set of cab files
which has content information used by the SharePoint help system.
Help:- The folder contains html help file
(.chm) used by the configuration wizard.
ISAPI:- This directory contains all the standard Web
Services for SharePoint and resources and configuration files that the web
services use.
Logs:- This is the folder where we can have all
the SharePoint related logs will see. This is important when any problem or
error occur in SharePoint you have to trace the logs files in this folder to
get the error messages.
Policy:- This directory contains SharePoint 2013 Server
policy files.
Resources:- This directory contains the core.resx
file used for creating language packs for SharePoint. by which different
SharePoint sites with different languages and cultures can be create.
Template:- It contains the core web site
functionality like the features, templates, configurations, resources of a web
site.
UserCode:- This directory contains files used to
support sandbox solution.
Web
Clients:- This directory
contains files related to Client Object Model.
Web
Services:- This directory
is the root directory where SharePoint back-end Web services are hosted, for
example, Excel and Search.
Other Directories In SharePoint 2013:
1) C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss - This directory (or the corresponding
directory under the Inetpub root on the server) is used as the default location
for IIS Web sites.
2) C:\ProgramFiles\Microsoft Office
Servers\15.0 - This directory
is the installation location for SharePoint Server 2013 binaries and data. The
directory can be changed during installation.
3) C:\ProgramFiles\Microsoft
Office Servers\15.0\WebServices - This directory is the root directory
where SharePoint back-end Web services are hosted, for example, Excel and
Search.
4) C:\ProgramFiles\Microsoft
Office Servers\15.0\Data - This directory is the root location where
local data is stored, including search indexes.
5) C:\ProgramFiles\Microsoft
Office Servers\15.0\Logs – This directory is the location where the
run-time diagnostic logging is generated.
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