The SharePoint Meeting Manager integrates into SharePoint as a Site Definition. After a successful installation of the solution file (.wsp) you may not see the Meeting Manager Workspace in your environment. This may have one of the following reasons.

Activate the Farm Feature! After successful deployment there is a new farm feature available. To use it, the feature „SharePoint Meeting Manager by Layer2“ has to be activated in the SharePoint Central Administration by a Farm Administrator. Go to Operations and select Manage Farm Features:

Fig.: Activating the SharePoint Meeting Manager feature

When you click "Activate" a one-time Timer Job is created. This Timer Job modifies the WebTemp.xml and adds the Meeting Manager Template as MPS#5. The Timer Job needs about one minute to complete. You can watch the status in Central Administration -> Operations -> Timer Job Definitions.

When the Timer Job is finished an IIS-reset has to be done. This is neccessary, because the available Templates are cached and the cache is cleared by an IIS-reset.

To check, if the Meeting Manager Template was registered correctly, you can open the WEBTEMP.XML file in "%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\<lcid>\XML" on every web front end server in your farm. In the "MPS" Template section you should see this Configuration node (for LCID 1033):
<Configuration ID="5" Title="Meeting Manager Workspace" Hidden="False" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/Layer2/MeetingManagement/MeetingManagementTemplate.jpg" Description="This template creates the SharePoint Meeting Manager workspace provided by Layer2. This workspace offers additional features like minutes management, template based reporting, role based permissions etc." DisplayCategory="Meetings" SubWebOnly="True" ProvisionAssembly="Layer2.SharePoint.Meetings.MeetingManagement, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=5aa2b7e0fd8b40f5" ProvisionClass="Layer2.SharePoint.Meetings.MeetingManagement.Provider.MeetingManagementProvisioningProvider" ProvisionData="" />

If this doesn't work for you, please contact us for direct support.

The SharePoint Meeting Manager is fully supported for English and German SharePoint Environments. This means that base installation (Language of Central Administration) has to be in English or German. If you have additional language packs installed, you may encounter that in the Meeting Manager Workspace is not visible when you create a new website. That is because the WEBTEMP.XML Extensions for your language is missing. You can follow the instructions in this FAQ article and extend the file on your own.

What if your base language is not English or German and you want to use the Meeting Manager?
First of all, please contact us for direct support. It is possible to set up the Meeting Manager in other languages and we'll be glad to assist you.