Creating Community subsites

I tried to create a community on my brand new SharePoint 2013 server.

First of all, the familiar Site Actions->New Site has been moved. You now have to open the gear menu, select View Site Content, then click new subsite. According to some blogs, there should be a Community template, but that does not appear on my list.

Recalling that a subweb can be converted to a community via activating the Community Site Feature, I just created a Blank Site and tried to activate the feature. This is when I ran into the following errors:

The Site scoped feature being activated has a dependency on hidden Site scoped feature 'FeatureDefinition/4326e7fc-f35a-4b0f-927c-36264b0a4cf0' (ID: '4326e7fc-f35a-4b0f-927c-36264b0a4cf0'). Hidden features cannot be auto-activated across scopes. There may be one or more visible Site scoped features that auto-activate the dependent hidden feature.
The Site scoped feature being activated has a dependency on hidden Site scoped feature 'FeatureDefinition/915c240e-a6cc-49b8-8b2c-0bff8b553ed3' (ID: '915c240e-a6cc-49b8-8b2c-0bff8b553ed3'). Hidden features cannot be auto-activated across scopes. There may be one or more visible Site scoped features that auto-activate the dependent hidden feature.
The Site scoped feature being activated has a dependency on hidden Site scoped feature 'FeatureDefinition/d32700c7-9ec5-45e6-9c89-ea703efca1df' (ID: 'd32700c7-9ec5-45e6-9c89-ea703efca1df'). Hidden features cannot be auto-activated across scopes. There may be one or more visible Site scoped features that auto-activate the dependent hidden feature.
The Site scoped feature being activated has a dependency on hidden Site scoped feature 'FeatureDefinition/947afd14-0ea1-46c6-be97-dea1bf6f5bae' (ID: '947afd14-0ea1-46c6-be97-dea1bf6f5bae'). Hidden features cannot be auto-activated across scopes. There may be one or more visible Site scoped features that auto-activate the dependent hidden feature.
The Site scoped feature being activated has a dependency on hidden Site scoped feature 'FeatureDefinition/c6a92dbf-6441-4b8b-882f-8d97cb12c83a' (ID: 'c6a92dbf-6441-4b8b-882f-8d97cb12c83a'). Hidden features cannot be auto-activated across scopes. There may be one or more visible Site scoped features that auto-activate the dependent hidden feature.

Curious about what these are? I ran the following Powershell

@("4326e7fc-f35a-4b0f-927c-36264b0a4cf0", "915c240e-a6cc-49b8-8b2c-0bff8b553ed3", "d32700c7-9ec5-45e6-9c89-ea703efca1df", "947afd14-0ea1-46c6-be97-dea1bf6f5bae", "c6a92dbf-6441-4b8b-882f-8d97cb12c83a") | ForEach-Object {Get-SPFeature $_}

and got the following:

DisplayName                    Id                                       CompatibilityLevel   Scope

-----------                    --                                       ------------------   -----

SocialSite                     4326e7fc-f35a-4b0f-927c-36264b0a4cf0     15                   Site

Ratings                        915c240e-a6cc-49b8-8b2c-0bff8b553ed3     15                   Site

CategoriesList                 d32700c7-9ec5-45e6-9c89-ea703efca1df     15                   Web

MembershipList                 947afd14-0ea1-46c6-be97-dea1bf6f5bae     15                   Web

AbuseReportsList               c6a92dbf-6441-4b8b-882f-8d97cb12c83a     15                   Web

Is there a feature that will activate all these as well? Searching around the internet, I did not find any so I figured why not try just activating the 2 site scoped ones using the following Powershell:

$site=Get-SPSite https://somesiteurl
$feature=Get-SPFeature "4326e7fc-f35a-4b0f-927c-36264b0a4cf0"
Enable-SPFeature -Identity $feature -Url $site.Url

$feature=Get-SPFeature " 915c240e-a6cc-49b8-8b2c-0bff8b553ed3 "

Enable-SPFeature -Identity $feature -Url $site.Url

I then went back to the Blank site and was able to activate the Community Site Feature.

I also tried new subsite and, lo and behold, the Community template is now there.

I am sure that someone will soon document how this should actually be done and that this will also be fixed in RTM, but until then, this works for me.

SP2013Beta: Adding site (SPWeb) users

I ran into a several relatively trivial issues with adding users to the Members and Owners groups in SharePoint 2013 Beta

My administrator user does not have a Site Settings option under the gear icon at the My Site. However, this was available under my Home site ("/"), so doing some URL mangling, I was able to get the My Site Permissions page by going to /my/_layouts/15/user.aspx

Note that "All Authenticated Users" is now called "Everyone"

The people picker doesn't look like it's working. I get a "Sorry, we're having trouble reaching the server". However, I am able to add users (ie: Share, in SP2013 speak) if I enter the complete name in the picker.

Finally, the "Send an email invitation" setting is checked by default and only accessible after you expand Show Options. That is annoying.