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How to disable Advanced web parts?
Hi all,
in Teams I can disable all the apps I don't want my users to use. But is this possible in SharePoint as well?
For example in the web part overview I find a lot of third party stuff
I only found something for three of the web parts using powershell and the web part ID but this is not working for all of the 3rd party web parts.
Thanks alot for some hints 🙂
- These web parts are only visible in team sites. Not in communication sites. Thats the reason why I was able to post a screenshot without the webparts.
I decided now for the following solution:
All these webarts I want to remove are powered by Office 365 connectors. They can be disabled with Set-OrganizationConfig -ConnectorsEnabledForSharePoint $false. This command is available in the EXO module. The webparts are still visible but they show a error message if someone tries to use them.
SYN_Dominik You can disable the advanced web parts using PowerShell command: Set-SPOTenant
You need to set the -DisabledWebPartIds property with the GUID of web parts. For example GUID of few web parts are:
- Amazon Kindle: 46698648-fcd5-41fc-9526-c7f7b2ace919
- YouTube: 544dd15b-cf3c-441b-96da-004d5a8cea1d
- Twitter: f6fdf4f8-4a24-437b-a127-32e66a5dd9b4
- Embed: 490d7c76-1824-45b2-9de3-676421c997fa
- Microsoft Bookings: d24a7165-c455-4d43-8bc8-fedb04d6c1b5
- Stream: 275c0095-a77e-4f6d-a2a0-6a7626911518
For more information, check this documentation: Set-SPOTenant
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- Hi,
I am aware of this command. Unfortunately this is not disabling all the apps I want to disable (see screenshot)Hi SYN_Dominik
At the moment, we can only disabled the web parts listed here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/set-spotenant?view=sharepoint-ps
May be worth trying by specifying ID of the webpart you want to disable to Set-SPOTenant -DisabledWebPartIds cmdlet, if that works.
SYN_Dominik make sure you only give your users read permission so they can't edit pages and therefore can't access the available web parts.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)- Hi Rob,
unfortunately this solves my problem only for my sites. I am the admin and want to make sure that these web parts cant be used at any site.
If you are looking out for an option to limit the custom web parts to certain set of users, follow below steps:
1. In the SharePoint Tenant app catalog, go to classic experience.
2. In the classic experience, select the sppkg and click Share.
3. Share it with set of users, you want to have access.
Hope this helps.
- Hi, unfortunately it doesn't since I am not using Custom Apps. I want to disable the Office 365 Connectors which are operating the most of the webparts of my screenshot.
- These web parts are only visible in team sites. Not in communication sites. Thats the reason why I was able to post a screenshot without the webparts.
I decided now for the following solution:
All these webarts I want to remove are powered by Office 365 connectors. They can be disabled with Set-OrganizationConfig -ConnectorsEnabledForSharePoint $false. This command is available in the EXO module. The webparts are still visible but they show a error message if someone tries to use them.
