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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Topic Last Modified: 2015-03-09
Activates a feature in the feature collection. You must first determine the scope of the feature. If the scope is Web-based or is a site collection scope, the url parameter is required. However, if the scope is farm-based, the url parameter is not required.
Note
If you try to use the url parameter on a farm-scoped feature, you will receive the following error message: “The feature ‘<feature name>’ applies to the entire farm; the URL parameter cannot be used with farm-scoped features."
stsadm -o activatefeature
** {-filename <relative path to Feature.xml> | -name <feature folder> | -id <feature ID>}**
**\[-url\] \<URL name\>**
**\[-force\]**
Parameter |
Value |
Required? |
Description |
filename |
A valid file path, such as "MyFeature\Feature.xml" |
Yes |
Path to feature must be a relative path to the 12\Template\Features directory. Can be any standard character that the Windows system supports for a file name. Note If the feature file is not found on disk, the following error message is displayed: “Failed to find the XML file at location '12\Template\Features<file path>'.” |
name |
Name of the feature directory, such as “MyFeature” |
Yes |
Name of the feature folder located in the 12\Template\Features directory |
id |
A valid GUID, such as “21d186e1-7036-4092-a825-0eb6709e9280” |
Yes |
GUID that identifies the feature to activate Note If the ID is specified but the feature does not exist, the following error message is returned: "Feature '<id>' is not installed in this farm, and cannot be added to this scope." |
url |
A valid URL, such as http://server_name |
Yes |
URL of the Web application, site collection, or Web site to which the feature is being activated |
force |
<none> |
No |
Activates a feature. This causes any custom code associated with the feature to rerun. |