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!

One day, we noticed that our search was not working.   Well really, one of the applications managers noticed that it wasn’t working.  Anyway, we found the following errors in the event viewer on our SharePoint 2007 Server: Event Type:      Warning Event Source:      Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search Event Category:      Gatherer Event ID:      2436 Date:            4/11/2009 [...]

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: [...]