An unexpected error has occurred when trying to create an Enterprise Search Center in SharePoint 2010

I thought I’m getting crazy with the above meaningless error message.

I tried to create an Enterprise Search Center within a site collection in SharePoint 2010. But I’ve received this error message all the time. I’ve also tried to create a new site collection, but without success.

Suddenly I had the idea to try it with SharePoint Designer. And voila, I’ve got an error message I can work with.

So the next step was to enable the Publishing Infrastructure feature. Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Site collection features -> SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure and click on “Activate

After this step you can also create the Enterprise Search Center without any error messages 🙂

17 responses to “An unexpected error has occurred when trying to create an Enterprise Search Center in SharePoint 2010”

  1. Just what I needed, thanks 🙂
    Love the SharePoint designer trick … Gonna use that in the future.

  2. great post as usual!

  3. this post is very usefull thx!

  4. Great stuff! This morning’s stress has been lifted thanks to this solution!

  5. great post as usual!

  6. Thanks Bud.

    Helped me out a lot. Appreciate it. Keep posting more stuff.

    Cheers,
    Nilesh

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  8. Great site thanks for sharing – how did you open the error message page in sharepoint designer?

  9. Within SharePoint Designer just use “Open Site” to open one. Afterwards you can create almost everything there, for example new subsites.

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    Very Very useful, saved my life and time

    5 stars!!!!

  11. Thank you Thank you!

  12. I started getting this error after I installed SP Designer and tried to modify a master page using it.

    The solution doesn’t work for me since I get that error when i try to access the “Site collection features”…

    Any ideas?

  13. I started getting this error after I installed SP Designer and tried to modify a master page using it.

    The solution doesn\’t work for me since I get that error when i try to access the \"Site collection features\"…

    Any ideas?

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  15. Oh My GOD thanks man I dont know if to cry or just go home early.
    So simple.

  16. Excellent solution , saved my day. The error message is really dumb and i bet without your help I would have been moving in circles.
    thanks mate

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