Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features' - When feature stapling to My Sites

Question

I am trying to deploy a feature to My Sites in SharePoint 2010 and nothing seems to be working. I did this perfectly fine on the test environment but can't seem to get it working on the production environment. Basically I keep getting this error:

Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Feature with Id 'd336ba21-03c8-4509-9dc5-a5515b11f670' is not installed in this farm, and cannot be added to this scope.

I am using this exact same project http://sp2010mysite.codeplex.com/releases/view/78702 no changes made to it yet to try and deploy it and I keep getting the error. I looked up the id and its the id for the My Content feature which is in the project so I have no idea why it complains. Also this exact same project works fine in another environment, is it my Visual Studio or SharePoint that' giving this problem?

I know I can do this manually using the management shell but I really want to get to the bottom of this issue.

Thanks for the help! Tudor

Answer 1

Is your production a multi server farm? I think you are facing the following issue:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/calvarro/archive/2011/11/06/sharepoint-2010-amp-visual-studio-2010-error-ocurred-activate-features-feature-with-id-installed-in-this-farm-cannot-be-added-to-this-scope.aspx

It turns out that VS 2010 internally implements a call to the method SPSolution.DeployLocal That method is intended for troubleshooting purpouses of wsp files and as you can read on the MSDN documentation it performs a local deployment instead of an immediate deployment (Only to one sever of the farm)