Detailed steps to activate and deactivate Crow Canyon Farm features

Applies to: SharePoint On-Premises

Description:

This article describes how to activate and deactivate Crow Canyon farm features in SharePoint server (2013, 2016 and 2019)

Instructions:

We have taken Crow Canyon archival feature as an example.

Activate Feature:

–> Open Command Prompt (Run as Administrator) –> Change the directory to “Hive” location using the command below

Hive location path:

SP2013: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN"

SP2016/2019: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\16\BIN"

Command:

STSADM.EXE -o activatefeature -name " CrowCanyon.TimerJobs_CCSArchivalJob" -url "SiteCollectionURL" –force

Deactivate Feature:

Command:

STSADM.EXE -o deactivatefeature -name " CrowCanyon.TimerJobs_CCSArchivalJob" -url "SiteCollectionURL" –force

Note: We should activate the Crow Canyon timer job features using above command.

Crow Canyon Timer Job features:

Feature Name	Feature Folder Name
Crow Canyon Recurrence	CrowCanyon.TimerJobs_CCSRecurrenceJob
Crow Canyon Archival	CrowCanyon.TimerJobs_CCSArchivalJob
Crow Canyon SLA	CrowCanyon.TimerJobs_CCSSLATimerJobFeature
Crow Canyon Scheduled Reports	CrowCanyon.CalculatedTable_CrowCanyon Scheduled Reports Feature
Crow Canyon Asset Maintenance	CrowCanyon.TimerJobs_CCSAssetsMaintenance
Crow Canyon Advanced Alerts	CrowCanyon.AdvancedAlerts_CrowCanyonAdvancedAlerts
Crow Canyon Workflow Manager	CrowCanyonWorkflowManager
Crow Canyon Advanced Alerts	CrowCanyon.AdvancedAlerts_CrowCanyonAdvancedAlerts
Crow Canyon Auto Close	CrowCanyon.TimerJobs_CCSAutoCloseJobFeature

We can also activate or deactivate other features from Manage Site Features of the site. Please refer this article https://support.office.com/en-us/article/activate-features-for-sites-787f3ba1-9df6-480a-ab4c-9f4525490cb9 for more details.

Troubleshooting steps for Activate or Deactivate features:

1. If the feature is not installed in the farm, we need to install the solution feature using below command. Please refer the feature folder names from above table and replace in below commands

 Install Feature:

Command:

stsadm.exe -o installfeature -name "##Feature Folder Name##"

UnInstall Feature:

Command:

stsadm.exe -o uninstallfeature -name "##Feature Folder Name##"

Feature Folder Path:

SP2013: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\FEATURES

SP2016/2019: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\16\TEMPLATE\FEATURES