Recently i was installed the sharepoint 2016.Web application was created.But there is no 15 hive folder.But other sharepoint 2016 server having 14,15,16 hive folder.I was applying some css changes.But is not appear in that site.
Why that 15 hive folder is not there.Can you please anyone give me reason for this.
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Please check the MSDN forum link once.
15 Hive is missing from SharePoint 2016
Whether you use the customized solutions for SharePoint 2013 in the new SharePoint 2016 environment?
If so, install the solution in the 15 CompatibilityLevel.
Reference:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607534(v=office.16).aspx
Hope it helps.
A standard installation of SharePoint Server 2016 will only create a 14 folder and a 16 folder. There is no 15 folder in the hive (i.e. at ...\Web Server Extensions\15). The reason they did this was to not break compatibility with v15 sites.
Furthermore there's no compatibility level available in 2016 (yes the switch is there, but there's no point). All sites are v15 and there is no backwards compatibility with v14.5. This was for ease of migration.
This was essentially a feature for Microsoft and is why all sites must be in v15 compat mode prior to upgrading to 2016.
About standard installation means you were installed SharePoint 2016 directly , such as manually run the prerequest.exe, setup.exe and so on . not upgrade from 2013 .
