Tips on Blank site Template

The Blank site template is somewhat defferent from other site templates in SharePoint 2010.

Taxonomy will not work in Blank site template since the feature is not activate. User has to activate the feature manually. The Taxonomy Feature Stapler attached with global and some of site templates but not with blank site template. The attribute AllowGlobalFeatureAssociations=”False” in blank site template.

To activate Taxonomy Feature using Power Shell

Enable-SPFeature -identity “73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C” -url “http://sitecollection/”
OR
Enable-SPFeature -identity “TaxonomyFieldAdded“ -url “http://sitecollection/”

To activate Taxonomy Feature using STSADM command

STSADM -o activatefeature -id “73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C” -url “http://sitecollection/” –force
OR
stsadm -o activatefeature name TaxonomyFieldAdded -url “http://sitecollection/”