This is based on another blog post here: http://blog.scoreman.net/2013/02/create-site-collections-in-sharepoint-online-using-csom/. In that article the author shows how to use the CSOM with C# to create a Site Collection in Office 365.
This script is a near direct translation of that script into a PowerShell version of the code. I’ve also liberally taken inspiration from Chris O’Brien’s excellent series of posts on SharePoint PowerShell and CSOM here: http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2013/12/Using-CSOM-in-PowerShell-scripts-with-Office365.html
#Add the dlls required for working with Office 365 Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll" Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\SharePoint Online Management Shell\Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell\Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.Client.Tenant.dll" #URLs and prerequisites $adminSiteUrl = "<Admin URL>" $newsiteUrl = "<URL of Site Collection to Create>" $username = "<username" $password = Read-Host "Please enter your Password" -AsSecureString Write-Host "Establishing Connection to Office 365." #Get the context and feed in the credentials $ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($adminSiteUrl) $credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($username, $password) $ctx.Credentials = $credentials Write-Host "Now configuring the new Site Collection" #Get the tenant object $tenant = New-Object Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.Tenant($ctx) #Set the Site Creation Properties values $properties = New-Object Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.SiteCreationProperties $properties.Url = $newsiteUrl $properties.Template = "STS#0" $properties.Owner = $username $properties.StorageMaximumLevel = 1000 $properties.UserCodeMaximumLevel = 300 #Create the site using the properties $tenant.CreateSite($properties) | Out-Null Write-Host "Creating site collection" #Create the site in the tennancy $ctx.ExecuteQuery() Write-Host "Site Creation request completed. Note that the creation process is asynchronous and provisioning may take a short while."
I’ve tested this on Office 365 but haven’t tried it with On-Premise SharePoint 2013 so far.
Hi,
Great script, a useful addition to this script would be to wait for the site creation rather than give your message. Here’s how I did it (from line 31 of your script)
#retrieve the SPO Operation return value during creation
$spOnlineOperation = $tenant.CreateSite($properties)
#load the tenant object
$ctx.Load($tenant)
#load the SPO operation
$ctx.Load($spOnlineOperation)
#run the command
$ctx.ExecuteQuery()
#wait for SPO Operation to complete
while($spOnlineOperation.IsComplete -eq $false)
{
write-host “Waiting…” -ForegroundColor Yellow
Start-Sleep 10
$spOnlineOperation.RefreshLoad()
$tenantCtx.ExecuteQuery()
}
write-host “Site Created”
(Tested on O365 only)
Can we set owner as security group for sharepoint online (o365) site?
I am trying to set directly as GroupName and also with security group email address but getting error like not a valid user
I don’t believe so.
In on-premises SharePoint you cannot set a group to be the ‘Owner’ of a site, although they can be added to a group that has full control. O365 is based on the same code base and I suspect the same restriction is in place there.
On prem. the point setting do not take effect.
$properties.StorageMaximumLevel = 1000
$properties.UserCodeMaximumLevel = 300
http://blog.sharepointsite.co.uk/2015/07/provisioing-site-collections-on-prem.html
http://blog.sharepointsite.co.uk/2015/05/provisioing-site-collections-using-csom.html
Hello,
I am getting an error but can’t find out the reason:
Line of code: $tenant = New-Object Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.Tenant($Context)
Error: A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument ‘A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument ‘Cannot find an
overload for “Tenant” and the argument count: “1”.’.’.
Any reason?