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I am creating new site collections with PowerShell and would like them to have all required Site Collection Features active once they have been created.

I would prefer to point a PowerShell script at an existing site collection, detect which Site Collection Features are already active in that site, and then activate them all in the new sites.

If anyone has a PowerShell script handy I'd appreciate it.

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Here is an alternative approach:

  1. Create a new empty site collection
  2. Activate all features needed
  3. Create a template out of this site (see Site Settings)
  4. When creating a new site collection use your custom site template

This could be an alternative solution for your question. If this helps, please give feedback.

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  • Agree that is a good suggestion and I would do that normally. In this instance I am importing exported sub sites (using Import-SPWeb) into new empty site collections and I'm finding that not all site collection features required for the exported sub site are being activated after import.
    – thekryten
    Commented Jun 22, 2018 at 5:02
  • Ok, I never ran into that problem site features being not activated as expected. Then you only have the chance to do this by Enable-SPFeature. Maybe this post gives you all needed information: sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/74165/…
    – PhilFancy
    Commented Jun 22, 2018 at 5:08
  • I can use Get-SPFeature -Site … on the master site collection or template, then pipe the results to Enable-SPFeature on the new site collection to ensure all required features are active.
    – thekryten
    Commented Jun 22, 2018 at 5:34

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