How to create a SharePoint 2010 site collection within SharePoint 2013

Understanding SharePoint 2010 Experience in SharePoint 2013

This is interesting post for me. Many would wonder why you would care about SharePoint 2010 experience in SharePoint 2013. Once I install brand new environment for SharePoint 2013, why would I worry about SharePoint 2010?

There are number of reasons why having co-existence of SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 experience you would need.

1. If you want to have environment to try out custom solutions built for SharePoint 2010 in SharePoint 2013 environment
2. If you want to test the upgrade and restore SharePoint 2010 environment in SharePoint 2013 environment before upgrading them.
3. If you want to compare side by side functionality and feature set of SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013

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Bottom line is you would never need SharePoint 2010 environment to test SharePoint 2010 functionality once you built new SharePoint 2013 farm or upgrade to SharePoint 2013.

To create the new SharePoint 2010 site collection in SharePoint 2013 environment, Microsoft provides new option to choose “SharePoint 2010 Experience” on the site collection creation page. On this page, if you select “2010” experience, it would allow you to select SharePoint 2010 site templates to create SharePoint 2010 version of site collection in SharePoint 2013 environment.

Original Author : Nik Patel