Microsoft 365 – SharePoint online – enable / disable the site collection App Catalog using PowerShell

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Today sharing SharePoint PowerShell CMDLET to enable / disable App Catalog at site collection level

Background

• We have implemented one custom SPFx component which is required for couple of site collections only in our tenant
• Since we have thousands of site collections in our tenant, we are not keen to deploy our SPFx component at tenant level
• So option is to have our SPFx component only for specific sites
• This is the reason we need to use site collection app catalog
• Tenant administrators can enable app catalog for specific sites
• Once Tenant administrators enabled app catalog for sites, sharepoint administrator can deploy SPFx component on those sites only

Steps to create site collection app catalog

• Connect to SharePoint online tenant using the Connect-SPOService CMDLET
• We need to pass the site collection admin URL to Url parameter

Connect-SPOService -Url <SharePoint admin site URL>

Connect-SPOService -Url https://knowledgejunction1-admin.sharepoint.com

• Once we connected to our tenant successfully we are ready to enable app catalog
• To create a site collection app catalog, use the Add-SPOSiteCollectionAppCatalog cmdlet passing the site collection where the app catalog should be created as the -Site parameter.

Add-SPOSiteCollectionAppCatalog -Site https://knowledgejunction1.sharepoint.com/ 

• Once app catalog successfully enabled for site collection, we have “Apps for SharePoint” library available as in below figure

• We will upload and deploy our SPFx component in “Apps for SharePoint” library as

Steps to disable site collection app catalog

• Connect to SharePoint online tenant using the Connect-SPOService CMDLET

Connect-SPOService -Url https://knowledgejunction1-admin.sharepoint.com

• Once we connected to our tenant successfully we are ready to disable app catalog
• To disable the site collection app catalog in our site collection, we will use Remove-SPOSiteCollectionAppCatalog cmdlet passing the site collection where the app catalog should be disabled as the -Site parameter.

Remove-SPOSiteCollectionAppCatalog -Site https://knowledgejunction1.sharepoint.com/

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