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Iron Contributor

Sep 11, 2018

Unable to activate 'content organizer' - "dependency on hidden site collection scoped feature"?

I've recently been playing around with some of SharePoint's features and one which I'd like to try out is the use of drop-off libraries. From what I've read online it seems you need to enable 'co...

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t_duarte

Copper Contributor

Feb 17, 2020

I just bumped into this in Office 365.

There is no need to force activate any hidden features.

The Content Organizer feature fails to activate due to dependencies with other features.

Ensure these features are activated and then content organizer should activate without issues.

**SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection features**

**SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Collection features**

Nicholas Pettijohn

Brass Contributor

Jul 07, 2020

Thank you, Toby McDaid! This worked for me!

Questions:

1. Why are these features disabled by default?

2. What are all the impacts/benefits of enabling them?

3. Will they conflict with any of the Modern features, or reduce security?

More research ahead!

By the way: Microsoft Support confirms today that Content Organizer daily throttling of 4000-5000 documents-moves per day has been reduced to just 500/day since end of May 2020. We have been depending on the old limit for more than a year. I do not yet know if this is temporary, or if it is a harbinger of bigger changes soon to come.

Nick