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SharePoint Online: Get All Site Collections using PowerShell

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Requirement: Get all site collections using PowerShell in SharePoint Online

How to Get a List of Site Collections in SharePoint Online?

A site collection is a group of sites, generally organized by department, project, region, function, or business units. If you’re responsible for managing a SharePoint Online environment, sooner or later, you’ll need to get a list of all the site collections in your tenancy. Thankfully, PowerShell makes it easy to gather information about your SharePoint Online environment. This blog post will show you how to use PowerShell to get a list of all the site collections in your tenant. You will also learn how to export the results into a CSV or HTML file for reporting purposes.

How to view all site collections in SharePoint Online? Well, If you want to get a list of SharePoint Online site collections, you can go to the SharePoint admin center (https://YourDomain-admin.sharepoint.com) >> Expand “Sites” >> Active Sites.

get all sites in sharepoint online

This gets you the list of all site collections in SharePoint Online. Let’s see the SharePoint Online PowerShell to get all site collections.

PowerShell to Get All Site Collections in SharePoint Online:

Site collections are the primary objects in SharePoint Online. Use the Get-SPOSite PowerShell cmdlet to list all site collections in the tenant. Here is the PowerShell to list all SharePoint Online sites.

#Load SharePoint Online Assemblies
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"
 
#Variables for Processing
$AdminUrl = "https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com/"
$UserName= "[email protected]"
$Password = "Password goes here"
 
#Setup Credentials to connect
$SecurePassword = $Password | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$Credentials = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $UserName, $SecurePassword

#connect to the service
Connect-SPOService -Url $AdminUrl -Credential $Credentials

#sharepoint online get all site collections PowerShell
$SiteColl = Get-SPOSite 

#sharepoint online PowerShell iterate through all site collections
ForEach($Site in $SiteColl)
{
    Write-host $Site.Url
}

This PowerShell enumerates site collections in SharePoint Online and gets the URL for each site.

How to Get All Site Collections in SharePoint Online using PowerShell?

Similar to On-Premises SharePoint Management Shell, You can also use “SharePoint Online Management Shell” to connect to Office 365, SharePoint Online sites! Here is the PowerShell script to get all site collections in SharePoint Online:

Import-Module Microsoft.Online.Sharepoint.PowerShell -DisableNameChecking

$AdminSiteURL="https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com"

$Credential = Get-credential 
Connect-SPOService -url $AdminSiteURL -Credential $Credential 

#sharepoint online list all site collections powershell
Get-SPOSite -Detailed | Format-Table Url, Template, StorageUsageCurrent, StorageQuota, LastContentModifiedDate -AutoSize

Here is the PowerShell script to get all site collections with detailed info from SharePoint Online and Export All Site Collection inventory to CSV:

Connect-SPOService -url "https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com" -Credential (Get-credential)
Get-SPOSite -Detailed | Export-CSV -LiteralPath C:\Temp\SitesInventory.csv -NoTypeInformation

This PowerShell lists all site collections in SharePoint Online tenant along with all available site collection details.

get all site collections inventory in sharepoint online using powershell

PowerShell to Get All Site Collections including Modern Team sites and Group Sites:

Let’s get the list of sites in SharePoint Online using PowerShell.

#Load SharePoint CSOM Assemblies
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\SharePoint Online Management Shell\Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\SharePoint Online Management Shell\Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\SharePoint Online Management Shell\Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell\Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.Client.Tenant.dll"
  
#Get All Site collections from the Tenant- Including Modern Team sites and communication sites
Function Get-SPOSites($AdminSiteURL, $Cred)
{
    #Setup credentials to connect
    $Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($Cred.Username, $Cred.Password)
   
    #Setup the context
    $Ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($AdminSiteURL)
    $Ctx.Credentials = $Credentials
  
    #Get the tenant object 
    $Tenant = New-Object Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.Tenant($ctx)
  
    #Get All Site Collections
    $SiteCollections=$Tenant.GetSitePropertiesFromSharePoint(0,$true)
    $Ctx.Load($SiteCollections)
    $Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
 
    #Iterate through Each site collection
    ForEach($Site in $SiteCollections)
    {
        Write-host $Site.URL
    }
}
  
#Set Parameters
$AdminSiteUrl = "https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com/"
$Cred= Get-Credential

#sharepoint online powershell list all sites
Get-SPOSites -AdminSiteURL $AdminSiteUrl -Cred $Cred

SharePoint Online PowerShell to List All Site Collections

Let’s get all site collections under a specific path: 

Import-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.Powershell

#Config Parameters
$AdminSiteURL="https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com"

#Get Credentials to connect to the SharePoint Admin Center
$Cred = Get-Credential

#Connect to SharePoint Online Admin Center
Connect-SPOService -Url $AdminSiteURL -Credential $Cred

#Get All site collections which has /sites in its path
Get-SPOSite -Filter { Url -like '*/sites*' } -Limit All

#Get All site collections of Group site template
#Get-SPOSite -Filter { Template -eq "GROUP#0" } -Limit All

You can filter and get all site collections based on some criteria. E.g., Let’s get all sites that are using > 1 GB storage

Get-SPOSite -Limit All | where { $_.StorageUsageCurrent -gt 1024 }

To filter and get collections: E.g., get all site collections with “Project*” in their URL. 

Get-SPOSite -Filter {$_.url -like "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/Project*"}

SharePoint Online PnP PowerShell to Get All Sites

Need to get a list of all the site collections in your SharePoint Online environment? PnP PowerShell to the rescue! This script shows you how to use the PnP PowerShell cmdlet Get-PnPTenantSite to get a list of all site collections in your tenant.

#Set Parameter
$TenantSiteURL="https://crescent.sharepoint.com"

#Connect to the Tenant site
Connect-PnPOnline $TenantSiteURL -Credentials (Get-Credential)

#sharepoint online pnp powershell get all sites
Get-PnPTenantSite

We can extract all site collection details and export them to CSV using: 

#Config Variables
$TenantSiteURL =  "https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com/"
$CSVFilePath = "C:\Temp\AllSitesData.csv"

#Connect to Tenant Admin Site
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $TenantSiteURL -Interactive

#Get All Site collections data and export to CSV
Get-PnPTenantSite -Detailed | Select Title, URL, Owner, LastContentModifiedDate, WebsCount, Template, StorageUsage | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation $CSVFilePath

This gets all site collections, including modern team sites and communication sites. Let’s skip search center, My site Host, App Catalog, Content Type Hub, eDiscovery and Bot, etc. and get the quota of all sites in the tenant:

#Parameter
$TenantAdminURL = "https://Crescent-admin.sharepoint.com"

#Connect to Admin Center
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $TenantAdminURL -Interactive
   
#Get All Site collections - Exclude: Seach Center, Mysite Host, App Catalog, Content Type Hub, eDiscovery and Bot Sites
$SiteCollections = Get-PnPTenantSite | Where -Property Template -NotIn ("SRCHCEN#0", "SPSMSITEHOST#0", "APPCATALOG#0", "POINTPUBLISHINGHUB#0", "EDISC#0", "STS#-1")
   
#Loop through each site collection
ForEach($Site in $SiteCollections)
{
    #Get the storage Quota of the site
    Write-host $Site.URL - $Site.StorageQuota
}

You can include OneDrive sites as:

#Get all site collections including OneDrive Sites
Get-PnPTenantSite -IncludeOneDriveSites

Get Site Collections List in an HTML Report format

Let’s get a list of all site collections in a friendly HTML format using PowerShell:

Import-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.Powershell -DisableNameChecking

#Config Parameters
$AdminSiteURL="https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com"
$ReportOutput="C:\Temp\SitesRpt.html"

#CSS Styles
$HeadTag = @"
<style type="text/css">

table {
 border-collapse: collapse; font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;
 font-size:11px; color:#333333; border-width: 1px; border-color: #a9c6c9;
 border: b1a0c7 0.5pt solid; border-spacing: 1px; border-collapse: separate; /*Sal Table format */  
}

th {
border-width: 1px; padding: 5px; background-color:#8064a2;
border: #b1a0c7 0.5pt solid; font-family: Calibri; height: 15pt; 
color: white;  font-size: 11pt;  font-weight: 700;  text-decoration: none;
}

td {
 border: #b1a0c7 0.5pt solid; font-family: Calibri; height: 15pt; color: black; 
 font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; 
}

tr:nth-child(even) { background-color: #e4dfec; }
tr:hover { background-color: #694D8C; color:#ffffff }

</style>
"@

$PreContentTag = "<h3> SharePoint Online: Site Collections Inventory Report </h3>"

#Get Credentials to connect to the SharePoint Admin Center
$Cred = Get-Credential

#Connect to SharePoint Online Admin Center
Connect-SPOService -Url $AdminSiteURL -Credential $Cred

#Get All site collections
$SiteCollections = Get-SPOSite -Limit All
Write-Host "Total Number of Site collections Found:"$SiteCollections.count -f Yellow

#Get the site collection details, convert to html and output to the report
$SiteCollections | ConvertTo-HTML -Title "Site Collection Inventory Report" -Property URL, Title,@{Expression={$_.LastContentModifiedDate }; Label="Last Modified"} -Head $HeadTag -PreContent $PreContentTag | Out-File $ReportOutput

And the report looks like this:

sharepoint online site collections html report

Here is another article on using PowerShell with SharePoint Online: How to Use PowerShell with SharePoint Online?

Salaudeen Rajack

Salaudeen Rajack is a SharePoint Architect with Two decades of SharePoint Experience. He loves sharing his knowledge and experiences with the SharePoint community, through his real-world articles!

3 thoughts on “SharePoint Online: Get All Site Collections using PowerShell”

  • If I have 2 Lakhs Site, using above will take time or gets timed out or it can cause performance issues at Server level.

    Is there a way to get it Batch wise ?

    Reply

  • Hi Sir,

    How can we separate all Modern Team sites and Teams site? Do you have any script for this requirement?

    Could you please help me on this.

    Thanks,
    Srinivas

    Reply

    • Simple! Use: Get-SPOSite -Limit All -Template ‘GROUP#0’ -IncludePersonalSite:$False

      Reply

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