About this Article:
Features are a wonderful addition to the SharePoint products, but you need to be able to activate them to make them useful. How Features get activated depends on whether you're talking about an upgrade, new site creation, or toggling Features on existing sites. This article is intended to help SharePoint administrators explore methods for managing Features under each of these scenarios.
Chris Fields is a senior technical architect at a Fortune 100 retail company. He has spent his career working with various Microsoft Server products, including Microsoft Operations Manager. He's currently responsible for architectural and operational aspects of Target's SharePoint Portal Server implementation. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children.
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