Good morning,

this weeks starts brilliantly thanks to the help of Chris Winebarger. He gave me a solution to put an end to the most infamous sharepoint 0×80020009 exception when trying to activate Sharepoint Publishing Infrastructure on a site collection. Here is the solution with stsadm :


stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishing\feature.xml -url http://URL -force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishingresources\feature.xml -url http://URL -force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishingSite\feature.xml -url http://URL -force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishingweb\feature.xml -url http://URL -force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishinglayouts\feature.xml -url http://URL -force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename navigation\feature.xml -url http://URL -force


(Obviously, replace the URL above with the URL of the site collection)

Many thanks to Chris for saving my day!
Max