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.

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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).