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Best practices for making Add-in available for limited number of site collections
I have scenario with a SPO environment that consists of hundreds of team and project site collections built from company standard templates. We’ve made a few add-ins available to the standard sites v...
I have not found a way to limit where apps can be installed if they are in the app catalog. However, I have limited who can see them in site collections by changing the permissions of the app in the app catalog itself. We do this for similar reasons where we have apps we don't want installed on any other site collection.
- Setup people in a SharePoint permission group in the App Catalog you are allowing to install apps in site collections.
- Add the app to the app catalog. In the Apps for SharePoint library, select the app in question.
- Using the ribbon, select Shared with > Advanced. Then choose Stop Inheriting Permissions.
- Remove the Everyone group and any other SharePoint permission groups you do not want to see the app.