How to enable SharePoint Spaces in all modern sites

By João Ferreira Apr 29, 2020 Office 365, SharePoint 2 Comments

SharePoint Spaces Preview have just arrived, however they are disabled by default and you must enable the feature in any site where you want to build VR environments.  

This can be a tedious process if you want to enable it to all your modern sites, but thanks to PnP PowerShell this process can be easily automated.

The following script gets all Modern sites in your tenant and one by one enables the SharePoint Spaces feature.

To execute the script you must be a global administrator on your tenant and you need to provide the tenant name to establish a connection, once connected sit down and relax the process may take some time depending of the number of sites you have.

Write-Host "Type the tenant name: e.g. Contoso"
$tenantName = Read-Host 
$tenantAdmin = "https://{0}-admin.sharepoint.com" -f $tenantName
$featureID = "2ac9c540-6db4-4155-892c-3273957f1926"

try
{
	Connect-PnPOnline -Url $tenantAdmin -UseWebLogin
} catch {
	Write-Host "Unable to connect."
	exit
}
 
if($modernOnly){
	$Sites = (Get-PnPTenantSite -Template 'GROUP#0') + (Get-PnPTenantSite -Template 'SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0')
}else{
	$Sites = Get-PnPTenantSite
}
 
Write-Host ("Activating SharePoint Spaces") -BackgroundColor Gray -ForegroundColor Black 
foreach ($Site in $Sites){		
	try
	{
		Write-Host -NoNewline ("* {0} - {1} - " -f $Site.Title, $Site.Url)
		Connect-PnPOnline -Url $Site.Url -UseWebLogin
		Enable-PnPFeature -Identity $featureID -Scope Web
		Write-Host "Done" -BackgroundColor Green
	} catch {
		Write-Host "Fail" -BackgroundColor Red
		exit
	}		
}
 
Write-Host "All Done"

Note: Any modern site created after the script execution will have the SharePoint Spaces feature disabled.

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