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

by Prasham Sabadra · Published July 14, 2023 · Updated July 14, 2023

PowerShell CMDLET for enabling / disabling to create site collection app catalog

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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-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-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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