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As most SharePoint developers are aware, explaining to customers how to deploy SharePoint solution files using the command line can be a challenging exercise.
Fortunately, some clever developers have created a GUI wrapper to make the entire process a bit more user friendly.
Unfortunately this cool application does not allow Web Application or Web scoped features to be deployed as that results in the ‘Feature xxxxx is WebApplication-scoped, and can not be added to the Site.’ error message.
There is a workaround, which is to delete the ‘FeatureID’ and ‘FarmFeatureID’ lines from the setup.exe.config files. The only drawback is that the administrator will need to manually activate the feature on the target Web Application.
With thanks to Roel Hans Bethlehem for this useful trick.
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