Feature Reporting and Deactivation across a SharePoint Farm

Chitra Dharaiya

May 07, 2013

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Reporting on features across a SharePoint Farm

Before retracting a SharePoint solution, it is best to deactivate the associated feature in each Site Collection. Here’s a script that reports on which Site Collections have a feature enabled, and optionally deactivate the feature. This is easily adapted to Web or Web Application features as well. Best is to first get the SPFeature GUID, using get-spFeature CmdLet. Just flip the $Deactivate switch to $true to actually deactivate. Note any SPFeature not found will generate an error that a try/catch clause will not catch. The quick solution is to capture my output into $OutLine, and clear the console and output the summary at the end of the run.

$OutLine=$null;
$Deactivate = $false;
$a=Get-SPFeature 359d84ef-ae24-4ba6-9dcf-1bbffe1fb788     #my site collection feature, substitute for yours
 
Get-SPWebApplication | Get-SPSite -Limit all | % {
$b = Get-SPFeature -Identity 359d84ef-ae24-4ba6-9dcf-1bbffe1fb788     -site $_.url
 
if ($b -ne $null)
{
    $OutLine = $OutLine + "Found active in $($_.url)`n"
    $b=$null;
    if ($Deactivate)
    {
        Disable-SPFeature 359d84ef-ae24-4ba6-9dcf-1bbffe1fb788 –url $_.url
    }
}
 
}
cls
if ($Deactivate)
{
    Write-Host "Deactivated all; Here are Site Collections where it was active:"
}
else
{
    Write-Host "Here are Site Collections where it is active:"
}
write-Host $OutLine