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I recently inherited an application from a developer who is no longer with the company. This application restores SharePoint sites from backups and extracts metadata and files from lists in the site. The application runs on a SharePoint server and uses the Microsoft.SharePoint assemblies in C# and VB.Net.

The backups come to us from various outside companies, and some of them have custom features installed. SharePoint Health Analyzer shows a warning about "Missing server side dependencies". When I look at the report there is a lot of "[MissingFeature] Database [db name] has reference(s) to a missing feature..." etc. The previous developer was supposed to implement a check for missing features, but it is obviously not working.

How can I identify features that the restored site references, but are not installed on the farm?

Thanks!

RH

Roger Harvest
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there are couple of ways.

  1. Run the Test-spcontentDatabase command against the content DB to get the list
  2. use this SharePoint Feature Administration and Clean Up Tool to identify and remove them
  3. You can use the powershell to get this done. http://get-spscripts.com/2011/08/diagnose-missingwebpart-and.html
Waqas Sarwar MVP
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