SharePoint Tip - Activating Publishing, Access Denied
A friend of mine has just recently gotten into working with MOSS. He started sending my emails with tips and tricks he's learning as he gets into the guts of it. I figured I would post them for others who may be new or run into similar problems.
You ever get that feeling that your missing something in the Site Settings menu? Do you get the "Access denied" when trying to activate Publishing Infrastructure?
A common mistake is to overlook the "Publishing Resources" option when installing SharePoint MOSS 2007.
Fortunately there is a way to correct it without having to give up, crawl under a blanket and eat comfort food because you need to re-install MOSS.
FIX: Use the following stsadm command (make sure to replace 'http://website' with your correct website...only needs to be the root) for each site collection that needs Publishing Resources functionality
1. Execute these command from the following command prompt: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN>
a. stsadm -o activatefeature -name PublishingResources -url http://website
NOTE: You also may want to run stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs when that finishes; this will force the jobs to run, instead of waiting on the SharePoint timer service.
2. Log into the site collection root website with a valid Site Collection administrator ID
3. Go to Site Settings and click on "Site Collection Features" under the Site Collection Administration column
4. ACTIVATE Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
5. Go back to the Site Settings page and click on "Site Features" under the Site Administration column
6. ACTIVATE Office SharePoint Server Publishing
Repeat steps 1-6 for each site collection. For each sub-site, you only need to do steps 5 and 6.