Thursday, October 4, 2012

SharePoint 2010 Error: The SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature must be activated at the site collection level before the Publishing feature can be activated

I tried to publish a new Business Intelligence Center site to my enterprise SharePoint 2010 site, but it failed because of the error "The SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature must be activated at the site collection level before the Publishing feature can be activated".  What I found really odd was that there weren't too many posts on how to resolve. 

Fortunately, it's a pretty simple fix.  After receiving the error, I scoured my SharePoint Central Admin, looking for any and every link involving the terms "SharePoint", "Server", "Publishing", "Infrastructure" and "Hey Eric this is what youre looking for".  Alas, none of those jumped out at me!

Then, based on some guidance on the web, I found that this setting isnt anywhere within the Central Admin website, it's on the SharePoint Front End
  • First, you have to make sure your an administrator within your Site Collection. 
  • On your top level site, go to Site Actions, and choose Site Settings.
  • Underneath Site Collection Administration, choose Site Collection Features
  • Towards the bottom of the page, choose Activate on SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
And that's it!  See.. told you it was a pretty simple fix

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