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
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Open Windows PowerShell 5.1 as Administrator
(located at:C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
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Install and load the correct module:
Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -Force Import-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell
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Connect to your tenant:
Connect-SPOService -Url "https://<tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com"
🔧 Step 2: Register Organizational Assets Library
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Choose a SharePoint document library where you store your Office templates (e.g., POTX files).
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Register the library using:
Add-SPOOrgAssetsLibrary -LibraryUrl "https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<site>/Shared Documents/Templates" -OrgAssetType OfficeTemplateLibrary
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You can optionally add a CDN logo/image library:
Add-SPOOrgAssetsLibrary -LibraryUrl "https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<site>/Shared Documents/Branding" -OrgAssetType ImageDocumentLibrary
📌 Notes
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It may take a few hours before the templates appear in Office apps.
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Users must be signed in with their organizational account to see the templates.
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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).