{"id":816,"date":"2013-04-29T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/?p=816"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:48:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:48:45","slug":"office-365-small-business-sideloading-of-apps-is-not-enabled-on-this-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2013\/04\/29\/office-365-small-business-sideloading-of-apps-is-not-enabled-on-this-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 365 Small Business “Sideloading of apps is not enabled on this site”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I began working on a new Office 365 site I had just created, and wanted to use Visual Studio to add an app to the site (using the Visual Studio deployment mechanism).  Unfortunately, I ran into the following error when I tried to run a \u201cdeploy\u201d of the app.<\/p>\n

“Sideloading of apps is not enabled on this site”<\/font> <\/p>\n

After a bit of pain sifting through the Google on the Internet box, I came across the following forum post on MSDN, http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/appsforsharepoint\/thread\/f30dcfa5-5047-4bd5-9f02-9feb7e935eec\/<\/a>.  In that post, there\u2019s a perfect little section of PowerShell that allows you to specify your Office 365 site and credentials, and will then enable the feature for you. <\/p>\n

Below is a copy of the code you\u2019ll need to put into a \u201c.ps1\u201d file on your local machine.  Note you\u2019ll also need a copy of the \u201cMicrosoft.SharePoint.Client.dll\u201d somewhere – so you can run this script from another SharePoint server, alternatively, you can get the SharePoint Online Management Shell<\/a> (local install on your dev machine) which is exactly where the code below will expect to find the file, or if you have a copy of the DLL on your machine locally, that works too, just change the path to the file in the code.<\/p>\n

[code language=”powershell”]
\n#CODE STARTS HERE<\/p>\n

$programFiles = [environment]::getfolderpath("programfiles")
\nadd-type -Path $programFiles’\\SharePoint Online Management Shell\\Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell\\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll’
\nWrite-Host ‘To enable SharePoint app sideLoading, enter Site Url, username and password’<\/p>\n

$siteurl = Read-Host ‘Site Url’
\n$username = Read-Host "User Name"
\n$password = Read-Host -AsSecureString ‘Password’<\/p>\n

if ($siteurl -eq ”)
\n{
\n $siteurl = ‘https:\/\/mytenant.sharepoint.com\/sites\/mysite’
\n $username = ‘me@mytenant.onmicrosoft.com’
\n $password = ConvertTo-SecureString -String ‘mypassword!’ -AsPlainText -Force
\n}
\n$outfilepath = $siteurl -replace ‘:’, ‘_’ -replace ‘\/’, ‘_’<\/p>\n

try
\n{
\n [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext]$cc = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($siteurl)
\n [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials]$spocreds = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($username, $password)<\/p>\n

$cc.Credentials = $spocreds<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow ‘SideLoading feature is not enabled on the site:’ $siteurl
\n $site = $cc.Site;<\/p>\n

$sideLoadingGuid = new-object System.Guid "AE3A1339-61F5-4f8f-81A7-ABD2DA956A7D"
\n $site.Features.Add($sideLoadingGuid, $true, [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FeatureDefinitionScope]::None);
\n $cc.ExecuteQuery();
\n Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green ‘SideLoading feature enabled on site’ $siteurl<\/p>\n

#Activate the Developer Site feature
\n}
\ncatch
\n{
\n Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red ‘Error encountered when trying to enable SideLoading feature’ $siteurl, ‘:’ $Error[0].ToString();
\n}<\/p>\n

#CODE ENDS HERE
\n[\/code] <\/p>\n

When run, my output looked similar to the following. <\/p>\n

PS C:\\Windows\\system32> C:\\scripts\\EnableDevOnO365.ps1
To enable SharePoint app sideLoading, enter Site Url, username and password
Site Url: ****
User Name: ****
Password: ****
SideLoading feature is not enabled on the site: <\/font>https:\/\/MyPubilcSite.sharepoint.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

DefinitionId       :
Context            : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext
Tag                :
Path               : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ObjectPathMethod
ObjectVersion      :
ServerObjectIsNull :
TypedObject        : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Feature<\/font><\/p>\n

SideLoading feature enabled on site <\/font>https:\/\/MyPubilcSite.sharepoint.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

This script nicely enabled the necessary feature for me, and then I was able to deploy my solution to my Office 365 site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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