Deactivate solutions- SP Foundation

Question

We have SharePoint Foundation 2010 (14.0.4763.1000) installed on our server. I created a site template and trying to deactivate it.

But when I try to deactive it from the solutions gallery, on hitting deactivate- it just gives a warning: "Warning: Deactivating this solution turns off the capabilities of this solution. Some parts of this site may no longer function. You may want to check the usage of this solution before deactivating it."

Details of the template- name, solutionid...

But doesn't give the option to deactive it. Can't we do this in the basic version?

Answer 1

Aparna

I would just force uninstall using Powershell. Try this:

please refer this link (for explanation and more commands) - http://patrickboom.wordpress.com/tag/disable-feature/

Uninstall-SPSolution –Identity MySharePointSolution.wsp –WebApplication http://myspwebapp
Remove-SPSolution–Identity MySharePointSolution.wsp

Answer 2

Yeah I did that and it was working. But I want to figure out why it's not happening through UI? As one of my users are trying to do it through interface which he couldn't..I can't give him access to the server to run these commands.

Answer 3

Aparna

You might want to check the User's permissions. As you know Sharepoint simply hides certain options (example; edit options) depending on User Permissions.

Try adding the User into the Site Owners group and check.