How to delete OOB Announcements list from the SharePoint Site ?
Announcements list template in SharePoint is installed as a feature with feature id 00bfea71-d1ce-42de-9c63-a44004ce0104. If you run the following command, the announcements section will get eloped from "Communications" section
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN>stsdm -o deactivatefeature -id 00bfea71-d1ce-42de-9c63-a44004ce0104 -url "https://brs2r04-16:7000/sites/TestSite"
If you would like to bring it back , then you need to run the command stsadm command with activate feature :-
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN>sts
dm -o deactivatefeature -id 00bfea71-d1ce-42de-9c63-a44004ce0104 -url "https://brs2r04-16:7000/sites/TestSite"
Here are the feature IDs of other List Templates :-
Libraries |
Feature ID |
List Template |
Document Library |
00bfea71-e717-4e80-aa17-d0c71b360101 |
101 |
Form Library |
00bfea71-1e1d-4562-b56a-f05371bb0115 |
115 |
Wiki Page Library |
00bfea71-c796-4402-9f2f-0eb9a6e71b18 |
119 |
Picture Library |
00bfea71-52d4-45b3-b544-b1c71b620109 |
109 |
Data Connection Library |
00bfea71-dbd7-4f72-b8cb-da7ac0440130 |
130 |
Translation Management Library |
29d85c25-170c-4df9-a641-12db0b9d4130 |
1300 |
Slide Library |
0be49fe9-9bc9-409d-abf9-702753bd878d |
2100 |
Report Library |
2510d73f-7109-4ccc-8a1c-314894deeb3a |
433 |
Communications |
Feature ID |
List Template |
Announcements |
00bfea71-d1ce-42de-9c63-a44004ce0104 |
104 |
Contacts |
00bfea71-7e6d-4186-9ba8-c047ac750105 |
105 |
Discussion Board |
00bfea71-6a49-43fa-b535-d15c05500108 |
108 |
Tracking |
Feature ID |
List Template |
Links |
00bfea71-2062-426c-90bf-714c59600103 |
103 |
Calendar |
00bfea71-ec85-4903-972d-ebe475780106 |
106 |
Tasks |
00bfea71-a83e-497e-9ba0-7a5c597d0107 |
107 |
Project Tasks |
00bfea71-513d-4ca0-96c2-6a47775c0119 |
150 |
Issue tracking |
00bfea71-5932-4f9c-ad71-1557e5751100 |
1100 |
Survey |
00bfea71-eb8a-40b1-80c7-506be7590102 |
102 |
Custom Lists |
Feature ID |
List Template |
Custom List |
00bfea71-de22-43b2-a848-c05709900100 |
100 |
Custom List in Datasheet View |
00bfea71-3a1d-41d3-a0ee-651d11570120 |
120 |
Language and Translators |
29d85c25-170c-4df9-a641-12db0b9d4130 |
1301 |
KPI List |
065c78be-5231-477e-a972-14177cc5b3c7 |
432 |
Import Spread Sheet |
Comments
- Anonymous
November 06, 2009
Thanks so much for this post! It really helped me out, I couldn't find this information anywhere else.