SharePoint Online: Disable a Feature for All Sites using PowerShell
Requirement: Disable a feature for all SharePoint Online sites using PowerShell.
If you are a SharePoint administrator, there may be times when you need to disable a feature for all sites in your organization. You can do this by using PowerShell! This blog post will show you how to disable a feature for all sites in your SharePoint Online tenant using PowerShell. This can be helpful if you have a feature that you no longer want to be activated in your tenant, and you do not want to do it manually for each site.
PowerShell to Deactivate a Site Feature on All Collections in the Tenant
We have a requirement to disable the SharePoint Online “Open Documents in Client Applications by Default” feature for all sites in the tenant. Here is the PowerShell to disable a feature for all site collections.
#Parameters
$TenantAdminURL = "https://crescent-Admin.sharepoint.com"
#Site Collection feature "Open Documents in Client Applications by Default"
$FeatureId = "8a4b8de2-6fd8-41e9-923c-c7c3c00f8295"
#Connect to Admin Center
$Cred = Get-Credential
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $TenantAdminURL -Credentials $Cred
#Get All Site collections - Exclude: Seach Center, Mysite Host, App Catalog, Content Type Hub, eDiscovery and Bot Sites
$SitesCollections = Get-PnPTenantSite | Where -Property Template -NotIn ("SRCHCEN#0", "REDIRECTSITE#0", "SPSMSITEHOST#0", "APPCATALOG#0", "POINTPUBLISHINGHUB#0", "EDISC#0", "STS#-1")
#Loop through each site collection
ForEach($Site in $SitesCollections)
{
#Connect to site collection
Write-host -f Yellow "Trying to Deactivate the feature on site:"$Site.Url
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $Site.Url -Credentials $Cred
#Get the Feature
$Feature = Get-PnPFeature -Scope Site -Identity $FeatureId
#Check if feature is activated
If($Feature.DefinitionId -ne $null)
{
#Disable site collection feature
Disable-PnPFeature -Scope Site -Identity $FeatureId -Force
Write-host -f Green "`tFeature Deactivated Successfully!"
}
Else
{
Write-host -f Cyan "`tFeature is not active!"
}
}
How to Disable a Feature for All Sites in a Site Collection using PowerShell?
Say, we want to disable the “Following Content” site feature from all webs of a given site collection:
#Parameters
$SiteURL = "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing"
$FeatureId = "a7a2793e-67cd-4dc1-9fd0-43f61581207a" #"Following Content" Web Scoped Feature
#Function to Deactivate a Feature in SharePoint Online Web
Function Deactivate-PnPWebFeature
{
[cmdletbinding()]
Param(
[parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $True)] $Web,
[parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $False)] $FeatureId
)
Try {
Write-host -f Yellow "Trying to Deactivate Feature on:"$web.Url
#Get the Feature to Deactivate
$Feature = Get-PnPFeature -Scope Web -Identity $FeatureId -ErrorAction Stop
#Check if the Feature is Activate
If($Feature.DefinitionId -ne $null)
{
#Deactivate feature
Disable-PnPFeature -Scope Web -Identity $FeatureId -Force -Verbose -ErrorAction Stop
Write-host -f Green "`tFeature Deactivated Successfully!"
}
Else
{
Write-host -f Cyan "`tFeature is not active!"
}
}
Catch {
write-host "`tError Activating Feature: $($_.Exception.Message)" -foregroundcolor Red
}
}
#Connect to the site collection
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -Interactive
#Call the Function for all webs
Get-PnPSubWeb -IncludeRootWeb -Recurse | ForEach-Object { Deactivate-PnPWebFeature $_ -FeatureId $FeatureId}
SharePoint Online: Deactivate a feature on All Sites using PowerShell
We can deactivate a web scoped feature from all sites and subsites of the tenant with the below PowerShell.
#Parameters
$TenantAdminURL = "https://crescent-Admin.sharepoint.com"
$FeatureId = "a7a2793e-67cd-4dc1-9fd0-43f61581207a" #"Following Content" Web Scoped Feature
#Function to Deactivate a Web Feature in SharePoint Online
Function Deactivate-PnPWebFeature
{
[cmdletbinding()]
Param(
[parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $True)] $Web,
[parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $False)] $FeatureId
)
Try {
Write-host -f Yellow "Trying to Deactivate Feature on:"$web.Url
#Get the Feature to Deactivate
$Feature = Get-PnPFeature -Scope Web -Identity $FeatureId -ErrorAction Stop
#Check if the Feature is activated
If($Feature.DefinitionId -ne $null)
{
#Deactivate the feature
Disable-PnPFeature -Scope Web -Identity $FeatureId -Force -ErrorAction Stop
Write-host -f Green "`tFeature Deactivated Successfully!"
}
Else
{
Write-host -f Cyan "`tFeature is not active!"
}
}
Catch {
write-host "`tError Deactivating Feature: $($_.Exception.Message)" -foregroundcolor Red
}
}
#Connect to Admin Center
$Cred = Get-Credential
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $TenantAdminURL -Credentials $Cred
#Get All Site collections - Exclude: Seach Center, Redirect, Mysite Host, App Catalog, Content Type Hub, eDiscovery and Bot Sites
$SitesCollections = Get-PnPTenantSite | Where -Property Template -NotIn ("SRCHCEN#0","REDIRECTSITE#0", "SPSMSITEHOST#0", "APPCATALOG#0", "POINTPUBLISHINGHUB#0", "EDISC#0", "STS#-1")
#Loop through each site collection
ForEach($Site in $SitesCollections)
{
#Connect to site collection
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $Site.Url -Credentials $Cred
#Call the Function for Web and all Subwebs
Get-PnPSubWeb -IncludeRootWeb -Recurse | ForEach-Object { Deactivate-PnPWebFeature $_ -FeatureId $FeatureId}
}
