Activate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure Feature

Why we need to Activate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure Feature?

To use below SharePoint Server Publishing features....

The publishing features that are enabled when the SharePoint Server Publishing feature is enabled on a non publishing site.

In Site settings - When you enable the SharePoint Server Publishing feature, the following changes are made to the Site Settings page:

1. In the Galleries section, the Master pages link is removed, and it is replaced with the Master pages and page layouts link at both the site collection and site level.
2. In the Site Administration section, a Site output cache link is added at the site level only.
3. In the Look and Feel section, the following links are added at both the site collection and site level.

• Master Page
• Page layouts and site templates
• Welcome Page

4 . In the Site Actions section, the Save site as template link is removed at both the site collection and site level.

5. In the Site Collection Administration section, the following links are added at the site collection level only:

• Site collection cache profiles
• Site collection object cache
• Site collection output cache

Regional settings- When you enable the SharePoint Server Publishing feature, the Subsite Settings section is added to the Regional Settings page. This enables you specify whether all sites below the current site should inherit the regional settings set for the current site.


Document libraries and lists Created

When you enable the SharePoint Server Publishing feature, the following document libraries and lists are added:

•  Documents This library stores documents that are used on pages in the site.
•  Images This library stores images that are used on pages in the site.
•  Pages This library stores pages that are created in the site.
•  Workflow Tasks This list stores workflow tasks that are created in the site.

List and Libraries Settings- In addition to the libraries and lists that are created, the following changes are made to document library settings:

• On the Document Library Settings page, in the General Settings section, a Manage item scheduling link is added.
• On the Versioning Settings page, the following changes are made:
• The Document Version History option is set to Create major and minor (draft) versions. This option determines what versions are created when a file is edited in the Pages library.
• The Draft Item Security option is set to Only users who can edit items. This option determines who can see draft items in the Pages library.
• The Require Check Out option is set to Yes. This option requires documents to be checked out before they can be edited.

NavigationThe following navigation changes are made when you enable the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature:

•  The top link bar is replaced with the global navigation menu.
•  Default settings for the global navigation menu and the Quick Launch menu are specified.

Web Parts

When you enable the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature, the following Web Parts are added at the site collection level and are available to use in all sites that are created within the site collection:

•  Content Query Web Part
•  Media Web Part
•  Summary Links Web Part
•  Table Of Contents Web Part

Page editing menu
When you enable the SharePoint Server Publishing feature, the following changes are made to the page editing menu: 

•  The Publish tab and Publish button are added to the master page.

Other changes
When you enable the SharePoint Server Publishing feature, the following changes are made:

• Users can no longer create pages that have a space in the name. Spaces are automatically converted to a dash .
•  The Manage Content and Structure link is added to the Site Actions menu. This opens the Site Content and Structure tool for the entire site collection. 
•  Here are some steps to Activate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure Feature...
  
  
  
  1. On the Site Actions menu, click Site Settings.
  2. Do one or both of the following:

  At site level

  1. On the Site Settings page, in the Site Actions section, click Manage site features.
  2. Next to SharePoint Server Publishing, click Activate.  

  Note: To enable the Publishing feature for a subsite, you must first activate the Publishing Infrastructure for the top level site in your site collection.

  
  

  At the site collection level

  1. If you are not at the root of your site, under Site Collection Administration, click Go to top level site settings.
  2. On the Site Settings page, under Site Collection Administration, click Site collection features.
  3. On the Site Collection Features page, next to SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure, click Activate.

  Note:  To make available Site Collection Administration section in the Site Setting you have to be Site Collection Administrator.

  
  

  

  
  

  Using PowerShell...
  

                     
  
  
                                                   
                                                                       
  Using STSADM utility....

  
  stsadm -o activatefeature -name PublishingResources -url http://itmohit
  

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

  
  

  
  

SharePoint 2013 Top 10 New Features

Here are some Top Features of SharePoint 2013 that will start to sell your business on investigating the Preview. All of these features are documented in TechNet. I'll do a Top 10 for each audience as more information becomes available.

1. Support the tools designers use: Flexibility in Branding – How great will it be that your designers can use Dreamweaver or other popular design products. More information on TechNet Branding Features
   "Whether that is Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression Web, or some other HTML editor. To brand a SharePoint site, designers just create a site design as they typically would, by implementing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript"
2. Offline and Sync of My Site (and other libraries) – "In SharePoint Server 2013 Preview, My Sites include several improvements to saving, synchronization, sharing, and moving of content. Users have the option to synchronize their My Site document library content with a local drive to enable offline access to documents." Saving and Syncing Content (I really love the new Follow people, documents, sites, and tags to customize their feed!!)
3. Search Engine Optimization & Analytics is in Search – Search is TONS better. Much of this is due to Analytics moving into search. This will make Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint Server 2013 Preview runs different analytics jobs to analyze content in the search index and user actions that were performed on a site to identify items that users perceive as more relevant than others. TechNet Analytics Recommendations
4. Content Search WebPart – This webpart is cool, but it may take a demo to understand the power. In many ways this is the next generation of Content Query Web Part. "Content Search Web Part that displays content that was crawled and added to the search index. You can use category pages when you want to aggregate content that meets certain criteria or parameters. For example, in an intranet scenario, all company events are maintained in a list that is shared as a catalog. A query is issued from the Content Search Web Part to return all items from the search index that are specified in the query." Content Search Web Part
5. Optimized mobile browser experience – For some companies this may be the reason to upgrade alone. Mobile is definitely something I have been looking for. "For smartphone mobile devices SharePoint Server 2013 Preview provides a lightweight, contemporary view browsing experience for users to navigate and access document libraries, lists, wikis, and Web Parts. Contemporary view.  This view offers an optimized mobile browser experience to users and renders in HTML5. This view is available to Mobile Internet Explorer version 9.0 or later versions for Windows Phone 7.5, Safari version 4.0 or later versions for iPhone 4.0, and the Android browser for Android 4.0. Classic view   This view renders in HTML format, or similar markup languages (CHTML, WML, and so on), and provides backward compatibility for mobile browsers that cannot render in the new contemporary view" Mobile browser experience Device specific Master Pages – You can target your branding to the device! Targeting different devices such as smartphones, tablets. "Allow a single publishing site to be rendered in multiple ways by using different designs that target different devices." TechNet Device Specific Branding Feature
6. Rich Workflows – If workflows were a sore point, they've gotten a lot better and seem much more able to handle more complex activities including looping and working with webservices (anyone thinking orchestration?). "A new action that enables no-code web service calls from within a workflow, New actions for creating a task and starting a task process and New workflow building blocks such as Stage, Loop, and App Step" With Azure Workflows you can even do "REST and Service Bus Messaging" Workflow in SharePoint 2013 Machine Translation – Looking forward to really seeing what our business can do with this translation service. Automated translation into various languages!
7. Development gets more familiar – Developers who are not SharePoint developers will find SharePoint 2013 preview a lot easier to work with. Leverage your existing "ASP.NET, Apache, C#, Java, and PHP. The new cloud app model gives you the freedom of choice." Familiar development environments
8. New App Model – This new app model will take you into the New Online World – "The new app model embraces web standards: You can develop the user experience with HTML and JavaScript, and leverage SharePoint and other REST services right from the client using JavaScript and JSON. You can even create your own REST services and provide a web hosting platform of your choice to handle complex logic and integration of data and services. The new cloud app model also takes advantage of OAuth to allow for secure communication between SharePoint and remote hosted apps and services." Familiar tools – App Model
9. Shredded Storage – This is one of my favorite new features. I can't wait to see what it does to our farm. Shredded storage will remove file duplicates and reduce the amount of content sent across the wire. You can find more on this in the IT pro decks.
10. Social Features: Activity feeds – I really like the idea that I can get real notifications of what's happening on a site including following documents, following sites, and following people… and automatically following team members (if you want). Communities – I think Microsoft's new site template communities will be interesting with integrated microblogging. I'm definitely anxious to see how our internal communities use them. What's new in social computing

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