This Solution Contains No Resources Scoped For A Web Application

Sharepoint has the annoying habit of forcing you to deploy globally whenever possible.

This solution contains no resources scoped for a web application.

Install spsolution identity helpdesk wsp webapplication http myserver gacdeployment. Today i tried to deploy a solution through powershell with the command. If the solution has no web application resources it is considered a global solution and does not actually need to target an web applications. This solution contains no resources scoped for a web application and cannot be deployed to a particular web application.

This solution contains no resources scoped for a web application and cannot be deployed to a particular web application cause you should be aware of the event receiver should be deployed globally to all web application you shouldn t specify a specific web application scope when deploying the event receiver. I then got the following error. This solution contains no resources scoped for a web application and cannot be deployed to a particular web application. When you try to deploy a global solution to a specific url you get the following message.