How to enable the Sharepoint reporting feature from the command line

http://blogs.msdn.com/esosa_en/archive/2007/08/03/how-to-enable-the-sharepoint-reporting-feature-from-the-command-line.aspx

I had a problem with a Sharepoint site recentrly that was not well provisioned and this caused that the audition reports were not displayed on the report site, I was trying to solve the problem with no success for a long time and getting the following error message "The specified web does not contain a reporting metadata list".  I was not able to activate the audit feature from the command line either, so , I had to call to my old friend the command line.  I used the following command:

stsadm -o activatefeature -name Reporting -url http://[server]/[sitecollection]/ -force

I was able to fix my site with that.

I'm still figuring out what was the situatuion that caused this situation, I think that this site was created with a inadecuate template or is a site that was migrated from a previous Sharepoint version, I will post the reason of this behavior as soon as I find it, in the meantime, this post could help some folks with the same problem.

ADAMMembership

<membership defaultProvider="ADAMMembership">

<providers>

<add

name="ADAMMembership"

type="Microsoft.Office.Server.Security.LDAPMembershipProvider,

Microsoft.Office.Server, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,

PublicKeyToken=71E9BCE111E9429C"

server="xxx"

port="50000"

useSSL="false"

userDNAttribute="distinguishedName"

userNameAttribute="cn"

userContainer="CN=Users,OU=Support,O=xxx,C=US"

userObjectClass="user"

userFilter="(ObjectClass=user)"

scope="Subtree"

otherRequiredUserAttributes="sn,givenname,cn" />

</providers>

</membership>