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HaroldvandeKamp's avatar
HaroldvandeKamp
MCT
Oct 07, 2016

Creating site collections using Office Dev PnP provisioning framework fails

For our customers we are provisioning SharePoint sites using the Office Dev PnP materials. For our solutions we prefer provisioning using the Provisioning Schema above using the Office Dev PnP PowerS...
Pieter Veenstra's avatar
Pieter Veenstra
MVP
Oct 07, 2016

Hi HaroldvandeKamp,

 

Are you trying to create the site collection with the apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate?

 

Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate expects an existing site collection with a root web to apply the template to. The templates that you apply should be genrated with the same base template used as where you apply the template to.

 

So for example is your template is generated from a team site then you will need to make sure that the site you are applying the template to has been created for the base team site template.

 

 

 

  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Oct 09, 2016

    Pieter is right it seems your site collection is not created yet. did you add code to provision the site collection?

    • HaroldvandeKamp's avatar
      HaroldvandeKamp
      MCT
      Oct 10, 2016

      Thank you Deleted and Pieter Veenstra. 

       

      Yes, in the past I already succesfully created site collections using the SharePoint UI or Office Dev PnP New-SPOTenantSite command, before I provisioned the site templates using the Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate. The Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate reference an XML-file with the configuration located in a <pnp:ProvisioningTemplate> element. It seems this still is needed.

       

      I'm still wondering: Why does the provisioning schema also includes elements regarding site collections, as described at https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP-Provisioning-Schema/blob/master/ProvisioningSchema-2016-05.md#sitecollection? 

      <pnp:Provisioning>
        <pnp:Sequence>
          <pnp:SiteCollection>
          ...
    </pnp:SiteCollection>
        </pnp:Sequence>
      </pnp:Provisioning>
      • Soumyadev Bhattacharyya's avatar
        Soumyadev Bhattacharyya
        Copper Contributor
        Apr 25, 2017

        Trying to use Pnp provisioning framework to apply site template on existing created site collection or subsite is working.

         

        However, I also could not see any usage of pnp:SiteCollection tag within pnp:Sequence

         

        Wondering how to make use of this using c# code. Any suggestion on this.