Provisioning – SharePoint Stuff

In this post we run through how to provision, deploy and troubleshoot the SharePoint Success Site offered by Microsoft.

Intro

The SharePoint Success Site is an extension of the great Microsoft 365 learning pathways site, which allows you to use and create curated playlists within a SharePoint site to offer training and support for users. The SharePoint Success Site is a fairly recent introduction to the learning pathways family and is offered as a standalone deployable option from the SharePoint look book.

How to provision

There are two ways to provision the SharePoint Success Site, either directly from the SharePoint look book, or via the learning pathways site itself.

Provision via the SharePoint look book

The SharePoint Success Site is dependent on the learning pathways site, so you will need to provision that first, or make sure that it is updated to the current version. More information on how to update the learning pathways solution can be found here.

Open the SharePoint Success Site via the SharePoint look book
Press add to tenant

Things to note:

You will need to be a global administrator to provision the SharePoint Success Site (described as tenant admin in the look book)
You will need to have an app catalog site in your SharePoint environment. More details on how to create an app catalog site can be found here
You will need to be an app catalog administrator to provision the SharePoint Success Site

Provision via the learning pathways site

Navigate to the learning pathways site in your SharePoint environment
From the navigation menu > select Learning Pathways Administration

Press the ellipsis … > add content pack
Select the SharePoint Success Site

This will then take you through to the SharePoint look book to follow the steps as described above

Once provisioned, the SharePoint Success Site will be deployed as a separate communication site within your environment. The site uses a content pack installed in the learning pathways site, which will be displayed within the site.

Issues and troubleshooting

Learning pathways errors in the SharePoint Success Site

When I tried to provision the SharePoint Success Site it didn’t work as seamlessly as I expected. For me, after provisioning the site via the SharePoint look book I received the following error across all pages displaying the learning pathways web part:

“Microsoft 365 learning pathways has a configuration issue. Ask your administrator for assistance. [Administrators: Please see the browser console for detailed logs. For technical assistance check out the issues list at https://github.com/pnp/custom-learning-office-365/issues.%5D“
Microsoft 365 learning pathways error.

To resolve this:

Navigate to the learning pathways administration page
Press the ellipsis … > add content pack
Select the SharePoint Success Site
A message will appear asking if you have already provisioned the SharePoint Success Site > press complete