In this PowerShell SharePoint tutorial, we will discuss how to solve the error, Connect-SPOService : Current site is not a tenant administration site. Recently, I was working with PowerShell SharePoint and trying to connect to SharePoint online site from SharePoint online management shell, but I got an error that says: Connect-SPOService: Current site is not a tenant administration site.
We were providing the credentials of my Office 365 account but still, It was giving the error. And the Office 365 account which we were using is an Office 365 tenant administrator account. So there were no issues regarding permission. But still, the current site is not a tenant administration site error was coming.
If you are new to SharePoint Online management shell, read How to connect to SharePoint online site using SharePoint Online Management Shell?
Below is the SharePoint online management shell command:
Connect-SPOService -Url https://onlysharepoint2013.sharepoint.com/ -credential [email protected]Then I got the below error.
Connect-SPOService : Current site is not a tenant administration site.
At line:1 char:1
+ Connect-SPOService -Url
https://onlysharepoint2013.sharepoint.com/sites/SPTraini …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Connect-SPOService], ServerException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException,Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell.ConnectSPOService
The error looks like below:
Connect-SPOService : Current site is not a tenant administration site
To connect to the SharePoint Online site using PowerShell, we need to provide the Sharepoint Online Administration Center site URL. The SharePoint online admin center site URL will be like below:
https://<your tenant id>-admin.sharepoint.com/
Example:
https://onlysharepoint2013-admin.sharepoint.com/Whenever you will sign up for an Office 365 trial, the Office 365 SharePoint admin site will be created automatically. So the PowerShell command will be like below:
Connect-SPOService -Url https://onlysharepoint2013-admin.sharepoint.com/ -credential [email protected]
Now when you will run the above command the error will not come. You will not receive any error related to Connect-SPOService Current site is not a tenant administration site.
Hope this will be helpful to solve an error Connect-SPOService : Current site is not a tenant administration site in SharePoint Online Office 365.
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Nice one 💪
Thanks
If its a PnP use
Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://tenant.sharepoint.com -Credential [email protected]
Thanks
Thanks -will try your suggestion.
Thank you! Saved some time for me!
Thank you. It helped me to solve the problem with connecting to SharePoint Online admin centre.
Using Connect-SPOService with a credential prevented me to see that my password was expired. Using it directly enabled me to see that was the problem, change my password and then successfully connect
Many thanks! Worked like a charm.
Perfect!!!
Hi,
i am trying to create some folders in a perticular sharepoint subsite..i am getting the error while connecting. but i am able to connect to main site…
could you please help and give me the script to make the changes on subsites post connected to main site?