SharePoint 2007 – How to Fix ‘Access Denied’ Activating Publishing Feature

This is a quick fix for “Access denied” errors received while attempting to activate the Publishing Infrastructure feature for a SharePoint 2007 site collection. After the feature is enabled, make sure you remember to switch the App Pool back!

	Right click on ‘My Computer’ and select ‘Manage’.
	Expand ‘Sevices and Applications’, then ‘IIS Manager’.
	Expand ‘Web Sites’, then right click on your MOSS web site.
	Select ‘Properties’, then the ‘Home Directory’ tab.
	Change the ‘Application Pool’ to your ‘SharePoint Central Administration’ application pool and select ‘OK’.
	From the command-line, execute ‘IISRESET’.

Enable the ‘Publishing Infrastructure’ feature within ‘Site collection features’. For detailed instructions for this step, please see this post.