Hi,
Recently I received an request from client to activate feature "Class Web Types (EduCourseCommunity)" on site.
As per investigation I found that this is an hidden OOB SharePoint feature as described in below article and has to be activated through PowerShell
http://sharepointtidbits.blogspot.com/2014/01/sharepoint-online-2013-site-assets-site_26.html
So I tried below steps:
* Ran below command.
* Enable-SPFeature -identity " a16e895c-e61a-11df-8f6e-103edfd72085" -URL http://site
* However the command failed with dependency on below features.
EduCourseCommunitySite -- Class Lists -- 824a259f-2cce-4006-96cd-20c806ee9cfd
EduDashboard - Class and My Site Content -- 5025492c-dae2-4c00-8f34-cd08f7c7c294
* Activated above dependent feature through PowerShell.
* Then tried activating the Class web types feature, however got below error.
Enable-SPFeature -identity " a16e895c-e61a-11df-8f6e-103e
fd72085" -URL "http://webappURL/sites/sptest"
Enable-SPFeature : EDU service cannot activate the feature
FeatureDefinition/15/a16e895c-e61a-11df-8f6e-103edfd72085. Please see administrator or check the server log for details.
At line:1 char:1
+ Enable-SPFeature -identity " a16e895c-e61a-11df-8f6e-103edfd72085" -URL
"http:// ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...etEnableFeature:
SPCmdletEnableFeature) [Enable-SPFeature], EduFeatureActivationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletEnableFeature
* Also found that site was inaccessible with error “Sorry, something went wrong” post activating these features.
* Deactivate above two dependent features, the site came up fine.
* Further followed below steps, but no success.
1.Download SharePoint Manager 2013, run it on SharePoint 2013 server and browse to a site
2.See all web level features (hidden or not) associated with a site and find "Class Web" feature.
3.SharePoint Manger 2013 will show you where the feature definition is stored once you activated the feature.
(Feature Definition tells you everything you need to know about the feature, and what happens once you activate it)
4.Cannot activate the "Class Web" feature, SharePoint thrown error on other dependencies (features) need to be enabled before this one.
5.Look up what they are, where to enable them by matching the ID shown in error message with list here
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14423.sharepoint-2013-existing-features-guid.aspx
6.Enable them all (through PowerShell or SharePoint manager, since some were hidden)
7.Enable Class Web Feature, and refresh SharePoint Manager 2013.
8.It should show everything about this feature stored in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Template\Features\EduCourseCommunity folder
9.By looking at its Elements.xml, Feature.xml you would find that this feature creates many Education related pages (Quiz, Assignments, etc.), Web Parts, and Some Action Menu to the SharePoint Site
* No errors in event log.
* ULS error too doesn't provide much info.
*No much info available on web for activating or troubleshooting issues with this feature.
Anyone knows how to activate this feature.
Any help much appreciated.