SharePoint 2010–Applying updates
In the previous versions of SharePoint, when you applied an cumulative update or service pack to the server version, you had to install the SharePoint services update then the server update. In 2010, Microsoft have done away with that practice and now if you have SharePoint server and not SharePoint Foundation running, you just need to apply the server CU or SP and not both the server and foundation versions as Microsoft are now rolling the foundation updates into the server updates.
If you want more information on the updates for SharePoint 2010 (Foundation and Server), I suggest you visit the Updates for SharePoint 2010 Products page on the TechNet site. All the information, and links to download the updates are there.
Enabling Metadata on your SharePoint 2010 site
If you want to use Managed Metadata in your site, such as the navigation or create a column you need to enable some features. Sometimes these features are not enabled by default, for example, if you use the Blank Site template you won’t get these features. If you Google for information on this, you get a wealth of information on setting it up, and managing it but not what features need to be enabled. It seems these features are not present in the UI, or I just couldn’t find them but I found the Guid of the features to be enabled.
So here is how to enable them:
Enable-SPFeature -id "73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C" -Url <Site-URL> Enable-SPFeature -id "7201D6A4-A5D3-49A1-8C19-19C4BAC6E668" -Url <Site-URL>
The first one enables the content types, columns support etc., the second one enables the metadata navigation options.
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