Error in creating a SharePoint Wiki site in SharePoint 2010

Problem Description: Error in creating a SharePoint Wiki site in SharePoint 2010

Creating a subsite underneath site collection by using ‘enterprisewiki’ throws an exceptions.

Please refer the following exceptions which is a series of error messages and helpful to understand the cause behind it.

Error Messages:

Error#1: Failed to activate site-scoped features for template 'ENTERWIKI#0' in site ‘http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects’.    a41b91e6-385b-42a9-a10f-c69e15de613a

Error#2: Failed to activate web features when provisioning site at url " http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects" with site definition "ENTERWIKI#0"

               

Error#3: Failed to apply template "ENTERWIKI#0" to web at URL " http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects".  a41b91e6-385b-42a9-a10f-c69e15de613a

Error#4: SPContentTypeBindingElement.ElementActivated(). ContentType '0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39004C1F8B46085B4D22B1CDC3DE08CFFB9C' not found on web ' http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects'.              a41b91e6-385b-42a9-a10f-c69e15de613a

Error#5: specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name:content type not found(‘0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39004C1F8B46085B4D22B1CDC3DE08CFFB9C’).

Analysis:

Wiki template is a dependency section of Publishing Infrastructure as per the following articles:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721051.aspx  

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee837434.aspx

Resolution:

Activate publishing infrastructure at the site collection level as well as at the site level.

How to do this:

Activate Publishing Infrastructure @site collection level:   

-Open the site

-site actions

-Site settings

-site collection Administration

-activate “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure”

Activate Publishing Infrastructure @site level:   

-Open the site

-site actions

-Site settings

-site actions

-manage site features

-activate “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure”

That’s it; your issue will be resolved.

If you have any queries regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know.

I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

Product Applies To:

SharePoint Server 2010

SharePoint Foundation 2010

Specified argument was out of the range of valid values/Provisioning did not succeed/The feature failed to activate

Most of the SharePoint problems revolves around features, activations, publishing, enterprise, solutions and so on…Today I was working with one user and he was facing some error message while activating publishing feature at the site level.

What exactly those error messages: (3 different error messages)

Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.

Parameter name: ContentTypeId   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContentTypeBindingElement.EnsureContentTypeExists(SPWeb web)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContentTypeBindingElement.ElementActivated(SPFeaturePropertyCollection props, SPSqlCommand sqlcmdAppendOnly, SPWebApplication webApp, SPSite site, SPWeb web, Boolean fForce)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPElementDefinitionCollection.ProvisionContentTypeAndEventReceiverBindings(SPFeaturePropertyCollection props, SPSite site, SPWeb web, Boolean fForce)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPElementDefinitionCollection.ProvisionElements(SPFeaturePropertyCollection props, SPWebApplication webapp, SPSite site, SPWeb web, Boolean fForce)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeature.ProvisionElements(SPFeaturePropertyCollection props, SPWebApplication webapp, SPSite site, SPWeb web, Boolean fForce)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeature.Activate(SPSite siteParent, SPWeb webParent, SPFeaturePropertyCollection props, Boolean fForce)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureCollection.AddInternal(Guid featureId, SPFeaturePropertyCollection properties, Boolean force, Boolean fMarkOnly)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureCollection.Add(Guid featureId, Boolean force)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureCollection.CheckSameScopeDependency(SPFeatureDefinition featdefDependant, SPFeatureDefinition featdefDependency, Boolean fActivateHidden, Boolean fForce)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureCollection.CheckFeatureDependency(SPFeatureDefinition featdefDependant, SPFeatureDependency featdep, Boolean fActivateHidden, Boolean fForce)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureCollection.CheckFeatureDependencies(Guid featidDependee, Boolean fActivateHidden, Boolean fForce)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureCollection.AddInternal(Guid featureId, SPFeaturePropertyCollection properties, Boolean force, Boolean fMarkOnly)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureCollection.Add(Guid featureId)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.FeatureActivator.BtnActivateFeature_Click(Object objSender, EventArgs evtargs)

   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)

   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument)

   at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument)

   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to create the 'Pages' library. Ori

ginalException: Content type '0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130E

C3DB064584E219954237AF39' not found in web 'https://sharepointknowledgemanagement.net/sites/DemoSite'.

The feature failed to activate because a list at 'Documents' already exists in this site.  Delete or rename the list and try activating the feature again.    at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.ProvisioningHelper.AddList(SPListCollection lists, String urlName, String title, String description, Guid featureId, Int32 templateType, Boolean& newListCreated)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.ProvisioningHelper.AddList(SPListCollection lists, String urlName, String title, String description, Guid featureId, SPListTemplateType templateType, Boolean& newListCreated)

   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.AreaProvisioner.CreateDocumentsDocumentLibrary(SPList approvalTaskList)

Troubleshooting steps:

Try activating the publishing feature at the site collection level. If it’s successful then forthcoming issues will also gets resolved and you can successfully activates the feature at the subsite level too.

If the error message stated that the list is already exist then open the site (on which you are facing problems) in SPD (SharePoint Designer). You will see the same list that was reflected in the error message. Either delete it or rename it and then try to activate the feature. It will be successful.

If you are facing problems by means of GUI then try to activate the same by means of stsadm command.

Check the ULS logs for detail error messages

Check event logs for any specific event ID’s

Isolate the problem specific to a site, site collection, list, and particular feature at which level. 

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues. Thank you