News Feed

To add the Newsfeed app or feature to your Team Site, you just need to Activate Site Feed  feature of your site.

Where's the Site Feed/Newsfeed/MicroFeed Web Part? ​So you've just completed a database attach upgrade and want to enable some of the fun new SharePoint 2013 social features on your old, blah site like the Newsfeed.  This appears by default on the home pages of new 2013 Team sites, but you want to add it to your existing/migrated sites.  You've already configured your MySite Host and User Profile Service correctly.  You've activated the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure site collection feature as well as the Wiki Page Home Page site feature on your upgraded site, but when you try to add a Site Feed Web Part to your page, you can't find it in any of the Web Part Categories.  Now what? Let's start "Working on it..." Because the MicroFeed is a new feature of SharePoint 2013, it won't exist on your upgraded site pages from SharePoint's previous versions.  So, you need to activate both the Following Content and Site Feed features on your site using Gear > Site Settings > Manage Site Features Now the MicroFeed app will appear in your site's Site Contents, but you still won't be able to find the Web Part to add to your page.  Also, you can't simply add the MicroFeed App Part to your page either unless you want to totally confuse your users by displaying a bunch of jibberish.  So, let's navigate to your root web and go to Gear > Site Settings > Web parts to open your Web Part Gallery If this is a migrated database, you'll be missing the SiteFeedWebPart.dwp in your list.  Add it by going to the Files tab > New Document Scroll down the list until you find the SiteFeedWebPart.dwp and check the box to select it. Then scroll back to the top of the page and click the Populate Gallery button. You'll be returned to the Web Part Gallery, navigate to the newly added SiteFeedWebPart and click the Edit button to open the Web Part Properties window.  Add the Web Part to the Social Collaboration group and optionally change the Title to a more friendly display name like Site Feed and click the Save button. Now when you go back to your site to Insert a Web Part on your page, the Site Feed Web Part appears in the Social Collaboration category.  Select it and click the Add button The Site Feed is now added to your page.