At times we need to get rid of feature(s) from SharePoint farm, those are no longer required. This is kind of cleaning and managing your SharePoint Farm. Most of the time due to inappropriate procedure or by using a 3rd party tool, Feature gets removed but it still displays on Feature.aspx page. When you try to search this feature through PowerShell or by tool, this feature becomes unavailable.
The simple reason of this is that it gets degraded and loose its scope and it has an orphaned entry in database.
So below are the steps to resolve this i.e. to clean up the feature reference from ManageFeature.aspx page.
- First of all open ManageFeature.aspx and copy the title of the feature that needs to be removed from the page. Paste the title in a notepad file (To remove any formatting or extra space while copying the title).
- Open SharePoint Management Shell as an administrator.
- Run below commands:
$feature = Get-SPFeature | ? { $_.GetTitle(1033) -eq “Orphaned feature name” }
$feature.Delete()
Happy SharePointing !