Hello, 

We have a content deployment set up between an authoring farm and a publishing farm. 
We are deploying an entire site collection from one farm to the other. 
This process has been working well for a long time, but unfortunately has now failed since since some time with the following fatal error: 

FatalError: Feature
'00bfea71-de22-43b2-a848-c05709900100' is Web-scoped, and cannot be added to
the Site.

Unfortunately the feature described in the error is a default SharePoint feature called "CustomList", and is not a custom developed one. We don't understand why an incremental content deployment would want to activate this feature on the Site level, since the feature is indeed Web-scoped. 

In our efforts to try and resolve this issue, we already several times tried to scratch the destination and redo an entirely new content deployment from the source: 

1. Deleted the entire site collection on the destination farm
2. Removed the content database from the web application on the destination farm
3. Attached a new empty content database to the web application on the destination farm
4. Recreated an empty (not blank) site collection on the destination farm. 
5. Deleted the content deployment path on the source farm, and reconfigured all. 

Unfortunately after 6 hours of importing, we always get the same fatal error again. There are no other errors in the import log. 

We also already cleared the OWTIMER cache, just to make sure the issue was not related, but it didn't resolve anything. 
We checked as well for any custom developed features in the site that would be depending on the "CustomList" feature, but could not find any relevant ones. 

What else could we try to resolve this content deployment issue?

Below is the full stacktrace from the import log: 

[2/19/2015 7:52:19 PM] [SiteFeature] [CustomList]   Error: Feature '00bfea71-de22-43b2-a848-c05709900100' is Web-scoped, and cannot be added to the Site.
[2/19/2015 7:52:19 PM] [SiteFeature] [CustomList]   Debug:    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureCollection.GetFeatureDefinition(Guid featureId, SPFeatureDefinitionScope featdefScope)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.FeatureSerializer.AddFeature(SPFeatureCollection features, Guid featureId, Version version, String properties, SPFeatureActivateFlags activateFlags)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.FeatureSerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.CallSetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo objectData, ISerializationSurrogate surrogate, ISurrogateSelector selector)
[2/19/2015 7:52:19 PM] FatalError: Feature '00bfea71-de22-43b2-a848-c05709900100' is Web-scoped, and cannot be added to the Site.
[2/19/2015 7:52:19 PM] Debug:    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeatureCollection.GetFeatureDefinition(Guid featureId, SPFeatureDefinitionScope featdefScope)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.FeatureSerializer.AddFeature(SPFeatureCollection features, Guid featureId, Version version, String properties, SPFeatureActivateFlags activateFlags)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.FeatureSerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.CallSetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo objectData, ISerializationSurrogate surrogate, ISurrogateSelector selector)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.ParseObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.DeserializeObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject, DeploymentObject envelope)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ObjectSerializer.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.DeserializeObjects()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.Run()

• Edited by Bart Billiet 16 hours 35 minutes ago

Hi Bart,

As far as I know, there is no default SharePoint feature called  "CustomList". It should be a custom solution.

For troubleshooting your issue, you can cleanup your feature uninstallation using powershell:

stsadm o deactivatefeature id 00bfea71-de22-43b2-a848-c05709900100 -url http://site

stsadm o uninstallfeature id 00bfea71-de22-43b2-a848-c05709900100

stsadm -o retractsolution -name CustomList.wsp -immediate -url http://site

stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs

stsadm -o deletesolution -name CustomList.wsp  

Reference:

https://sharepointjim.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/sharepoint-2010-content-deployment-error-feature-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-is-site-scoped-and-cannot-be-added-to-the-web/

Thanks,

Eric

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Hello Eric, 

We do still believe however that the "CustomList" feature with GUID 00bfea71-de22-43b2-a848-c05709900100 is a default SharePoint feature, as it's listed here: 
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mcsnoiwb/archive/2010/01/07/features-and-their-guid-s-in-sp2010.aspx

So unfortunately we are not able to retract and uninstall the solution, as it's default SharePoint and no custom development. 

• Edited by Bart Billiet 14 minutes ago