I was trying to activate the Office Sharepoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature in the site collection features but the feature is simply not there. Is this option not available in SharePoint Foundation 2010?

Publishing Infrastructure is one of the features that is only avaialble in SharePoint Server Standard or Enterprise. It is not included in SharePoint Foundation 2010. It wasn't included in Windows SharePoint Servives (WSS) either. Publishing has always required the purchased version of the product.Paul Stork SharePoint Server MVP

Thanks Paul.

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