Access Denied when Activating Feature

When you following the Microsoft's Best practices for installing and set different application pool account for each application pool, you will get an error when activating a feature with webconfig modifications.

A quick work arround for this is to temporarly change the application pool account of the webapp from which you will activate the feature, to the same account as the central admin webapp.

This is because the central admin application pool account has specific permissions on stored procedures on the sharepoint_config database,which are required to run the update.

Links to the Best Practice Guides

Office SharePoint Server security account requirements

Installation guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Sharepoint Feature: Variantion Flags Feature

Out of the box there is a control which displays the Variations you have specified. These variations are displayed in a dropdown list. On 90 % of the sites on internet the languages (variations) are displayed as Flags.

So I started a search on the internet to a web part which will display the language as flags.
I thought that I wouldn’t be the first who wanted this in his SharePoint application.
Put after a long search. I couldn’t find any web part. So I decided to develop it my self.

Out of the box variation feature

This variations feature