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Shane Christy
Copper Contributor
Sep 01, 2016

PnP Provisioning Engine - Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate Fails On Subweb (Powershell)

Hello, I am working with the provisioning engine and it's working perfectly on site collection level. But when I try to apply a template to a subsite, it fails with an error message I can't decipher....
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Shane Christy
Copper Contributor
Sep 02, 2016

Update: Fixed (kind of)

 

I was using 2.6.1608.0

 

I checked and all of the local files that are referenced by the template are located in the folder.

 

I was able to fix this by getting the template with GetProvisioningTemplate provided by the PnP C# sample Provisioning.Framework.Console. Previously I was referencing an .xml file I got with the PowerShell cmdlet and then running C# method on that outputted file. I don't know what makes this C# method different than referencing a previously created xml file

 

I'm still not able to use the .xml file I created with PowerShell cmdlet but when I get template directly and reference it from memory, it works.

 

The original plan was to reference a previously created XML file but this works for the time being.

 

 

 

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BertJansen
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Sep 05, 2016

hmm...both should work. Can you log an issue in our pnp sites core issue list, including the XML you're reading?

 

 

  • nitinkumar kakulde's avatar
    nitinkumar kakulde
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 30, 2016

    Hi, 

    I am also getting the below error and nothing get created in sub site using PnP provision commands.

     

    Connect-SPOnline -Url https://Domain.sharepoint.com/Sites/TT1  -Credential  DEV #(Get-Credential)

    Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate  -Path .\RetailerExtranetQARootSubSiteSiteStructureToTSW_2.xml 

     

     

     

    Error :

    Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate : Value cannot be null.
    Parameter name: stream
    At line:1 char:1
    + Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate -Path .\RetailerExtranetQASubSiteStruc ...
    + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo : WriteError: (:) [Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate], ArgumentNullException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : EXCEPTION,SharePointPnP.PowerShell.Commands.Provisioning.ApplyProvisioningTemplate

     

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