Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Failed to determine definition for Feature with ID

I recently replicated my development server from the production server where changes are done by end users using STSADM back and restore process.

When I tried to edit my search page on development machine, I got error "An unexpected error has occurred."
To diagnosis this, I look at the log file created at "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS".
The error logged was “Failed to determine definition for Feature with ID 'd75b8655-0098-40ac-aad6-7578d9d93901'. Skipping this feature for element querying consideration.”

Search this feature ID on production server at location “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES” and found that it is for old custom workflow which was still on Production as there are existing items using it. But this has been replaced with new one on development and as such was not found.

This error will also occur if you have an Enterprise license on Production and Standard on Development as there will be some of the feature not available on the Development

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