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Marc Depelteau
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Aug 25, 2017
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Adding SharePoint Site Owner in PowerShell

Hi all,  I am working on a provisioning script that will allow me to create Modern SharePoint Team Sites and apply a provisioning template to them after, all of this in PowerShell Cmdlets. I cr...
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Marc Depelteau
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Aug 31, 2017

Hi Drew Madelung,

I did try this before and it added my user to the Owner group, but it still says ''access denied'' when I try to apply the provisioning template.

Perhaps it could be that the access token has not been refreshed/renewed?

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Drew Madelung
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Aug 31, 2017
So you are trying to add an account to the owners group which works with the powershell above then you are trying to use that same account to apply a provisioning template to a site?
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    Marc Depelteau
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    Aug 31, 2017

    Drew Madelung That's correct. I have been digging a little bit more and I believe the problem is related to the template itself. I think the site has not been completely created just yet when I am applying the template.

    I have the following nodes:

    <pnp:Files>
    <pnp:File src="..\SiteAssets\Test.txt" Folder="SiteAssets" />
    <pnp:File src="..\SiteAssets\logo.png" Folder="SiteAssets" />
</pnp:Files>

    And see this in the detailed logs: "Creating folder 'SiteAssets' under Web '/sites/MyModernSite19/'"

    2017-08-31 10:31:15.0785 [Files] [13] [Debug] Code execution scope started 0ms 8614b127-0a77-4b98-942b-c298d9ac31e9
    2017-08-31 10:31:16.1248 [OfficeDevPnP.Core] [0] [Information] Creating folder 'SiteAssets' under Web '/sites/MyModernSite19/'. 0ms 
    2017-08-31 10:31:16.2582 [Files] [13] [Debug] Code execution scope ended 1180ms 8614b127-0a77-4b98-942b-c298d9ac31e9
    2017-08-31 10:31:16.2592 [Provisioning] [13] [Debug] Code execution scope ended 6993ms 8614b127-0a77-4b98-942b-c298d9ac31e9

    I believe the access Denied error means that I cannot create the folder SiteAssets under Web, not that I can't apply the template.

     

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      Marc Depelteau
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      Aug 31, 2017

      Update: The Site Assets folder is only created once the user browses to the site (in the UI). 

      Would there be a way to fake that browsing action? Possibly a Web Request?

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        Marc Depelteau
        Copper Contributor
        Sep 05, 2017

        Update 2:
        This worked for me

         

         

        $context = Get-PnPContext
$web = Get-PnPWeb
$web.Lists.EnsureSiteAssetsLibrary()
$web.Context.ExecuteQuery()

         

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