You are right about the Office SharePoint Server Publishing site feature, a
ton of things are not available without it active, if you create a basic
Team Site you can't manage navigation, switch the master page, create
publishing pages etc, you'll notice a big difference in the number of
options available in the site actions menu. The page editing toolbar only
displays on publishing pages. Activating the Office SharePoint Server
Publishing will create a pages library and other lists and libraries
required to support publishing.
It also depends on the site template used to create the subsites, if you
create a new publishing site and view the site features you'll notice that
the Office SharePoint Server Publishing site feature is already activated
for the new site (because it is referenced in the Onet.xml for the
publishing site).

Whether or not you need the features enabled depends on what you need to use
the site for really, I've seen this cause confusion before, by default if
you create a basic team site in a publishing enabled site collection it
won't have the publishing feature enabled in the team site. Then users
wonder why they can't create publishing pages and need to use a content
editor web part instead.

Sezai.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jeremy Thake <[email protected]>wrote:

>  The difference is in the scope. You will need the Site Collection
> Features and the Site Features both activated to get all the features. Most
> of the Site Templates will do this for you, but if you are doing it after
> the fact, you should activate them at both if you need them. This is a more
> granular way to allocate Features to particular sites underneath a site
> collection.
>
>
>
> For publishing...you don’t “have to”, but you won’t get certain
> functionality in new sites if you don’t activate it. I may be wrong, but off
> the top of my head the Page Editing Toolbar won’t be there on a sub site if
> you don’t active the Publishing Site Feature on it, even if the Publishing
> Site Collection feature is there.
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Paul
> Noone
> *Sent:* Monday, 22 June 2009 4:00 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Site features vs site collection features
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> After a quick audit of my sites I’ve come looking for some clarification as
> to what the difference is between site features and site collection
> features.
>
>
>
> For example, If I have enabled the following features at the site
> collection level, do I also need to activate them for each new sub site. It
> doesn’t appear to be the case but it does make it confusing to determine
> which features are actually set for a specific site.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>
> Online Developer, ICT
> CEO Sydney
>
>
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