I'm stuck with a SharePoint 2010 exception when trying to create a subsite with a custom template of type publishing site:
Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to initialize some site properties for web "http://site/subWeb"
Original Exception: Value does not fall within expected range..
Stacktrace: at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGlobal.HandleCOMException(COMException comEx)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.ApplyWebTemplates(...)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.ApplyWebTemplate(string strWebTemplate)
at Microsoft SharePoint.SPWeb.CreateWeb(...)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWebCollection.Add(...)
at [custom code]
The error occurred approximately 10-15 seconds after the site creation process started. I checked the logs, and the newly add-ed site was deleted after the activation of the Publishing feature failed. I also found more detailed logging error in the log a bit earlier than the above:
Exception thrown when attempting to activate sub web's publishing feature:
attempting to get GUID from Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.QueryBasedCollection'1.get_Item(Guid uniqueId)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.AcreaProvisioner.SetDefaultPageProperties(PublishingWeb area, Boolean& updateRequired)
I have no ideas why a GUID is involved when activating a sub web's publishing feature...
The web template comes from SharePoint 2007, but I'm not sure whether there are anything special that needs to be applied to it before it will work properly in 2010 (assume not).
Things I have tried so far: re-activating all server publishing feature in all scopes + iisreset with all possible combinations, but nothing worked so far.
Desperately need some help on this one... TIA.
