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MadSPS
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Feb 07, 2020
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Sharepoint Online - cannot create app catalog site

Hello all,   I'm new to Office 365 solutions. At the moment I need to set-up a demo tenant in my dev trial account. One of the first steps is to"create app catalog site" https://docs.microsoft.com/...
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    MadSPS
    Feb 08, 2020

    jcgonzalezmartin 

    Solution from MS support (it actually helped me):

     

    If the Tenant does not have any Site Collection created it will not be possible to create the App Catalog.

     
    Please go to the SharePoint admin center > Click on More features > Open Classic site collections page and create a new site collection. Just use the default template and make a throwaway site.
     

    After this go back to create the app catalog.

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MadSPS
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Feb 08, 2020

jcgonzalezmartin 

Solution from MS support (it actually helped me):

 

If the Tenant does not have any Site Collection created it will not be possible to create the App Catalog.

 
Please go to the SharePoint admin center > Click on More features > Open Classic site collections page and create a new site collection. Just use the default template and make a throwaway site.
 

After this go back to create the app catalog.

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mccmswinkels
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Sep 02, 2020

MadSPS In my case I did know for sure that there must be at least one site collection. Although I did get the same Error and I couldn't create an App Catalog site.

 

After navigating to Site > Active sites, I discovered that it shows an empty sites list. Strange, because there should be at least one site collection!

 

Just refreshing with CTRL+F5 did the trick for me. The site collections where there and I could create an App Catalog site.

 

I guess something in my cache was holding back this process.

 

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