Term Store Management Link is missing in Blank Site Template

Yesterday I tried to access the "TermStore Management" Link under Site Settings in SharePoint BlankSite Template. Found that it was missing.

Issue Description:

Term Store Management Link is missing in Blank Site Template

Solution:

Found that the Managed Meta data service feature was not enabled by default for the Blank site Template in SharePoint.
Executed the command from the powershell to activate the feature in the Blank Site Template .
Enable-SPFeature -id "73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C" -Url

After executing the command successfully you will able to see the Term store management link under "Site Administration" in the Site Settings Page.

Solution Update or Retract issue in SharePoint 2010

Issue Description:


Last week I ran into one issue when I tried to Update or Retract a solution  in SharePoint 2010.

When I tried to update/retract one of the solution in the sp2010,the Power shell command  has executed but when I went into Manage Farm Solutions, there the solution was showing the status as the deployment has been scheduled from 5/3/2012 05:53 AM and it won’t complete.

Resolution:

Verified the services.msc and found that SharePoint Timer service was  stopped and restarted the service and tried updating the solution and executed successfuly and updated the solution.