Create Site Collection - Unattended

[anthonywhite]

I am looking to automate Site Collection creation in a C# Azure Function, authenticating app-only with the app registered through the Register-PnPAzureADApp PowerShell command. I based this on the sample PnP Azure Function and that all works fine when retrieving data from an existing site.

However I cannot see any method in PnP.Framework or PnP.Core that does Site creation using a PnPContext. Have I missed it somewhere? The Framework.Sites.SiteCollection.CreateAsync() requires a Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext (as does the Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.Tenant.CreateSiteCollection method).

Is there no equivalent of the New-PnPTenantSite PowerShell command in the Framework? Can anyone suggest the best way of doing this in my function?

[jansenbe]

@anthonywhite : Site collection creation is done using REST API's for the most part, creating a group connected site using App-Only uses a Graph API call. Code lives here: https://github.com/pnp/pnpframework/blob/dev/src/lib/PnP.Framework/Sites/SiteCollection.cs

Currently we do not yet have support for creating site collections in PnP Core SDK, but as mentioned by you when using a CSOM client context this works...the CSOM client context is just used to obtain an access token for the REST/Graph calls. We do plan to add support for site collection creation in PnP Core SDK going forward, just did not get to it yet

[anthonywhite]

OK thanks Bert - I need non-group sites. Is there some utility that creates a ClientContext from a PnPContext? Or will I need to start over?

[jansenbe]

See answer to #294 , you can use that approach to issue the rest call that creates the site collection

[anthonywhite]

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