Using Managed Metadata in SharePoint sites created from the blank site template

When you create a site from the Blank Site template and then attempt to add a list column of type Managed Metadata you are confronted by a message stating, “The required feature is not enabled for this column type.” If you try to save you are also informed that “The Taxonomy feature (Feature ID “73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C”) has not been activated.
A term set or anchor point was not selected”

So clearly a prerequisite Feature has not been activated. So what feature is this? Would have been nice for the message to be a little friendlier! Using our old friend PowerShell we can execute the following cmdlet to find out.

Activating the Taxonomy Feature using Power Shell:

1. GO to Start menu.
2. Go to SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and select Run as Administrator.
3. In the command prompt, type each of the following commands.
   
   Enable-SPFeature -id 73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C -URL http://<Server>
   
4. <Server>- is the SharePoint server name.
5. Now you have activated the Taxonomy Feature.

Activating the Taxonomy Feature using STSADM command:

1. GO to Start menu.
2. Go to SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and select Run as Administrator.
3. In the command prompt, type each of the following commands.
   
   STSADM -o activatefeature -id 73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C -url http://< Server > -force
   
4. <Server>- is the SharePoint server name.
5. Now you have activated the Taxonomy Feature.