Friday, July 8, 2011

SharePoint 2010: "The feature failed to activate because a list at 'Pages' already exists in this site" when trying to activate SharePoint Server Publishing feature on a Meeting Workspace site

When attempting to activate the SharePoint Server Publishing feature on a Meeting Workspace site in SharePoint 2010, you receive the following error message:


Workaround

Open the Meeting Workspace site in SharePoint Designer 2010. Select the All Files folder in the left navigation menu. Rename the pages folder to something like "sitepages".


to


Should be able to successfully activate the SharePoint Server Publishing feature now.

4 comments:

  1. Thank you for the nice tips. It was simple to read, but I'd like to add that if your software business needs to be updated try outsourcing software development services.

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  2. You may use "stsadm" command for the same.

    Format:
    stsadm -o forcedeletelist -url

    Example

    stsadm -o forcedeletelist -url "http://rkapiljith:80/Corporate/Pages"

    Enjoy your day friends:-)
    Kapiljith.R

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  3. Worked great for me.

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