Showing posts with label Failed to activate site-scoped features. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Failed to activate site-scoped features. Show all posts

17 April, 2013

Error in creating a SharePoint Wiki site in SharePoint 2010

Problem Description: Error in creating a SharePoint Wiki site in SharePoint 2010

Creating a subsite underneath site collection by using ‘enterprisewiki’ throws an exceptions.

Please refer the following exceptions which is a series of error messages and helpful to understand the cause behind it.

Error Messages:
Error#1: Failed to activate site-scoped features for template 'ENTERWIKI#0' in site ‘http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects’.    a41b91e6-385b-42a9-a10f-c69e15de613a

Error#2: Failed to activate web features when provisioning site at url " http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects" with site definition "ENTERWIKI#0"
               
Error#3: Failed to apply template "ENTERWIKI#0" to web at URL " http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects".  a41b91e6-385b-42a9-a10f-c69e15de613a

Error#4: SPContentTypeBindingElement.ElementActivated(). ContentType '0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39004C1F8B46085B4D22B1CDC3DE08CFFB9C' not found on web ' http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects'.              a41b91e6-385b-42a9-a10f-c69e15de613a

Error#5: specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name:content type not found(‘0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39004C1F8B46085B4D22B1CDC3DE08CFFB9C’).

Analysis:
Wiki template is a dependency section of Publishing Infrastructure as per the following articles:


Resolution:
Activate publishing infrastructure at the site collection level as well as at the site level.

How to do this:
Activate Publishing Infrastructure @site collection level:   
-Open the site
-site actions
-Site settings
-site collection Administration
-activate “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure”

Activate Publishing Infrastructure @site level:   
-Open the site
-site actions
-Site settings
-site actions
-manage site features
-activate “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure”

That’s it; your issue will be resolved.

If you have any queries regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know.

I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

Product Applies To:
SharePoint Server 2010
SharePoint Foundation 2010