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Team site template failing with New-SPSite

Shane Reeves 1 Reputation point
2022-02-09T19:00:58.717+00:00

Sharepoint 2016 - On prem

New-SPSite -Url "$scUrl" -ContentDatabase $contentDb -OwnerAlias "$primary" -SecondaryOwnerAlias "$secondary" -Template "STS#0" -Name $Name

I am trying to create a site collection using the Team site template "STS#0" however the following error is generated and the site collection doesn't get created.

New-SPSite : Failed to activate feature: Failed to find the XML file at location
'16\Template\Features\FT-01-5fb3bec3-2945-e9a5-7e26-21ea532e509c\feature.xml' 75621519-a6c5-4c1a-a748-5d428e4aa444

I'm guessing this a feature that got removed migrating from 2010 to 2016 a while back. How do I locate the reference and remove it so it can be usable again?

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  1. CaseyYang-MSFT 10,341 Reputation points
    2022-02-10T03:05:50.243+00:00

    Hi @Shane Reeves ,

    You can find and remove orphaned feature first: 

    //Find the orphaned features  
Get-SPFeature | ? { $_.Scope -eq $null }  
  
//Delete the orphaned features  
$feature = Get-SPFeature | ? { $_.Id -eq “{GUID}” }  
  
$feature.Delete()

    Then copy feature from 15 to 16. You can find feature folder in C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\FEATURES

    Please remember to back up files in 16 then paste files into it.

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