Enable-SPFeature does not trigger the feature receiver

Posted by Eric Bartels

Today I encountered the same problem as stated in a blog post by Christopher Maish. When activating the feature via powershell the associated feature receiver was not called. Trying the suggested solution in the blog post drove me to the cause of this problem. When using stsadm I got an “access denied” error. I did [...]

With great power comes – PublishingWeb.DefaultPage

Posted by Eric Bartels

or at least the power of “Use Remote Interfaces – Use SOAP, Web DAV, or SharePoint Designer interfaces to access the Web site”. In a SharePoint project I’m working on it was necessary to get the default page of a publishing web in case where it differs from default.aspx.   In the environment the project [...]