How to deploy a lookbook on a SharePoint Online Site Collection (And not the tenant) using PowerShell?

Question

Hi there

• How to deploy a lookbook on a SharePoint Online Site Collection (And not the tenant) using PowerShell?
• When will the GUI-based approach be back to work? (As of now it says the system is under maintenance)
• Can this template be applied to a Site Collection https://lookbook.microsoft.com/details/c9300e94-6e83-471a-b767-b7878689e97e? How?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi @frob
SharePoint Look Book is a set of downloadable templates created and hosted for you by Microsoft. What’s cool about it is that you can look up a design you like and then install the template in your environment. It is by design and you could refer to this article to learn how to begin with it:
https://sharepointmaven.com/how-to-get-started-with-sharepoint-look-book/

As to apply a lookbook to an existing SharePoint Online Site Collection, we need to:
1.Install SharePoint PnP PowerShell Online

Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline  

2.Lets now connect to the site where we already applied a Look book theme.

Connect-PnPOnline -Url “https: //abcxyz.sharepoint.com/sites/Sourcesite”  

3.Get the source site template with below cmdlet.

Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Out “D:\SourceSiteTemplate.xml”  

4.Now connect with the destination site which is already existing communication site in your tenant. Same PnP command.

Connect-PnPOnline -Url “https: //abcxyz.sharepoint.com/sites/DestinationSite”  

5.Once after connecting successfully enter the cmdlet to Apply the theme to destination site from D drive.

Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path “D:\SourceSiteTemplate.xml”  

For more details you could refer: https://onetidbit.com/2021/07/01/apply-sharepoint-look-book-theme-to-existing-site-collection/

As to the work time, it seems that service to be online again in January 2022 without exact time.

Above is to apply the existing template. If you need other templates now, after you click "add to your tenant" in https://lookbook.microsoft.com/, you will get another page and click "GitHub repository":

According to the "README.md", we find that Repository for SharePoint PnP Provisioning templates to automate site / tenant level provisioning logic. Templates are divided on different folders based on the structure and needed permissions.

Let's pay our attention to the "tenant" folder, we will find some subfolders in it containing the template files:

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