Thursday, July 24, 2008

SharePoint V3: Error: Failed to activate feature 'PublishingPrerequisites'

Description:

Receiving error when attempting to activate the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure, site collection feature:

Error: Failed to activate feature 'PublishingPrerequisites'





Solution:

- Run IISReset on the front end web servers
Start > Run > CMD > iisreset /noforce

- Activate the feature
Site Actions > Site Settings > Site Collection Features > Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure > Activate
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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:00 AM EST

    thx a lot

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  2. Fabian Muñoz8:32 PM EST

    Thank you very much!, very simple solution and work like a charm

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  3. Anonymous11:19 PM EDT

    Yes, this worked for me to surprisingly enough...

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  4. Anonymous4:30 PM EDT

    Thanks!

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  5. Anonymous3:38 PM EDT

    Didn't work for me unfortunately. Any idea what causes this?

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  6. Anonymous1:57 PM EDT

    You're my hero.

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  7. Anonymous10:57 AM EDT

    Such solutions are welcome for every problem! I am ready to bare loss of everything else for such simplicy

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  8. Anonymous9:07 PM EDT

    Thanks you for posting. I love you!

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  9. Andy1:32 AM EST

    nice an easy, thanks mate.

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  10. Unknown12:01 PM EDT

    Thanks mate!

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  11. Sreenath8:06 PM EST

    Kudos to you!
    Thanks!

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  12. Anonymous5:19 AM EST

    An application pool recycle does the trick as well.

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