STSADM: Scripting activaton/deactivation of web app level features

Question

I am writing a script to activate/deactivate certain features and there are a couple web application scoped features and when i test the commands, the feature status doesnt change.

Im using:

stsadm -o activatefeature -if {guid} -url {url}

Im not sure how else to do it.

If im not clear, shufler (in the comments below has it worded differently).

Answer 1

Try deactivating and then activating again using the following commands:

  stsadm -o deactivatefeature -id C2EC140A-FF1B-4828-8238-1E37704E53A4 -url http://testwebappl -force

  stsadm -o activatefeature -id C2EC140A-FF1B-4828-8238-1E37704E53A4 -url http://testwebappl -force

Note: Replace the name of Feature GUIDs and web application URL with actual ones.

Important: it is recommended to run above commands as a .bat file to avoid SharePoint GUI timeouts during features activation/deactivation