Set Up Organizational Assets Library for Office Templates

Step-by-step documentation for configuring a central template library that becomes available in Office apps under the 'Your organization' tab.


Overview

📘 Instruction: Set up an Organizational Assets Library for Office Templates (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)

This guide describes how to configure a central template library that becomes available in Office apps (such as PowerPoint and Word) under the "Your organization" tab.

✅ Requirements

  • You are a Microsoft 365 administrator
  • You have access to the SharePoint Admin Center
  • PowerShell 5.1 is available on your machine (required for SharePoint cmdlets)
  • You are using Windows PowerShell, not PowerShell 7

🔧 Step 1: Set up PowerShell

  1. Open Windows PowerShell 5.1 as Administrator
    (located at: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe)

  2. Install and load the correct module:

    Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -Force
    Import-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell
  3. Connect to your tenant:

    Connect-SPOService -Url "https://<tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com"

🔧 Step 2: Register Organizational Assets Library

  1. Choose a SharePoint document library where you store your Office templates (e.g., POTX files).

  2. Register the library using:

    Add-SPOOrgAssetsLibrary -LibraryUrl "https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<site>/Shared Documents/Templates" -OrgAssetType OfficeTemplateLibrary
  3. You can optionally add a CDN logo/image library:

    Add-SPOOrgAssetsLibrary -LibraryUrl "https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<site>/Shared Documents/Branding" -OrgAssetType ImageDocumentLibrary

📌 Notes

  • It may take a few hours before the templates appear in Office apps.

  • Users must be signed in with their organizational account to see the templates.

  • You can remove a registered library with:

    Remove-SPOOrgAssetsLibrary -LibraryUrl "<url>"

✅ Done! Your organizational templates will now show up under the "Your organization" section in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (both web and desktop versions).


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