Whenever I create a new MOSS site this is going to use the Office SharePoint Server Publishing feature I get an “Access Denied” error when I try enable it. So, I am finally posting the solution: stsadm -o activatefeature -name PublishingResources -url <site> *Be sure to include the “http://” in the <site> Hope this helps!

When trying to enable the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature we were getting an “Access Denied” error.  The error in the application event log was: Event Type:    Error Event Source:    Office SharePoint Server Event Category:    Publishing Provisioning Event ID:    4965 Date:        5/13/2009 Time:        10:16:31 AM User:        N/A Computer:    SERVERNAME Description: Event log message was: [...]