Activating the CopyMove Features

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The CopyMove product is implemented as a standard SharePoint "Feature", which means it can easily be activated or deactivated by SharePoint administrators and site collection owners. The product ships with the following three features:

Farm Feature. This feature adds a group of CopyMove related administration links to the Operations tab in Central Administration. It also kick starts a one time timer job that copies all CopyMove resource files (RESX files) from the resources folder to the App_GlobalResources folder for each Web application. This is a work-around to a known bug in the SharePoint solutions framework, which erroneously deploys application resource files to the resources folder.
 
When deactivated at the farm level, the link group labeled SharePoint Products will no longer be available on the operations tab in Central Administration. It will also prevent further activations of the Web application feature and the site collection feature. However, CopyMove will continue to be available in site collections for which one of these two features are already activate.
 
The feature XML files are deployed to the folder TEMPLATE\FEATURES\SPPCopyMoveFarm relative to the SharePoint 12 root folder.
Web Application Feature. Activating this feature adds a Copy and Move menu action to all supported document libraries and lists in all site collections hosted by the Web application. Deactivating the feature removes all menu actions again. Document libraries and lists created from custom templates are not supported - it requires the development of a custom feature associated with the list template id.
 
The feature XML files are deployed to the folder TEMPLATE\FEATURES\SPPCopyMoveWebApp relative to the SharePoint 12 root folder.
Site Collection Feature. Activating this feature adds a Copy and Move menu action to all supported document libraries and lists in the site collection. Deactivating the feature removes all menu actions again. Document libraries and lists created from custom templates are not supported - it requires the development of a custom feature associated with the list template id.
 
The feature XML files are deployed to the folder TEMPLATE\FEATURES\SPPCopyMoveSite relative to the SharePoint 12 root folder