While saving a SharePoint site as site template using “Save site as template” from site settings I was facing an unexpected error with a correlation id. After going through the correlation id I found it was some missing features which were causing the problem. Point to be noted here; the farm that I was working was migrated from SharePoint 2007 to 2010.
Find out missing features of a SharePoint site or site collection
To find out the missing features I have used a utility from msdn known as WssAnalyzeFeatures which allow you to detect the missing features in a text file and after that you can use that file to remove or deactivate that feature to the particular site/sitecollection. To use this utility navigate to the application folder and open command prompt and use the following command,
WssAnalyzeFeatures -url {site/sitecollection url}
For example,
>>WssAnalyzeFeatures -url http://sharepoint2010:20851
And the problem list is like the following which show the missing features with id and site/sitecollection url.
list of sharepoint missing features
Remove missing features of a SharePoint site
Now you can use another utility named WssRemoveFeatureFromSite
to remove those missing features from the site or site collection. Following command will remove the missing features with the feature id,
WssRemoveFeatureFromSite -scope (site|sitecollection) -url <url-to-site> -featureid <featureid> -force
For example,
>>WssRemoveFeatureFromSite -scope sitecollection -url http://sharepoint2010:20851 -featureid 69f5ac26-bb89-4190-893f-109783877cfb -force
Hope this helps.
