Office 365: How to Set up an App Catalog on SharePoint 2013 Online

Sign up for an Office 365 Developer Site

This article shows how to set up an app catalog in SharePoint 2013 Online. To do this you must have access to an Office 365 Developer Site. Here are three ways to get one:

• Are you an MSDN subscriber? Visual Studio Ultimate and Visual Studio Premium with MSDN subscribers receive an Office 365 Developer Subscription as a benefit. Redeem your benefit today. Do you have one of the following Office 365 subscription plans? Office 365 Midsize Business Office 365 Enterprise E1, E3, E4, or K1 Office 365 Education A2, A3, or A4 Office 365 Government G1, G3, G4, or K1 If so, you can provision a Developer Site from the Office 365 admin center. For more information, see How to: Create a Developer Site within your existing Office 365 subscription.

• You can either start with a free 30-day trial, or buy an Office 365 developer subscription (with a one-user license for either option) using one of the following links. This subscription costs $99.00 per year. Please refer to the msdn for more details.

App Catalog

In SharePoint 2013 there is a special site collection that holds the apps called the App Catalog. There cannot be more than one App Catalog site collection in a web application or each web application can have only one App Catalog site collection. An app catalog is a dedicated site collection in a SharePoint 2013 web application (or a SharePoint Online tenancy) that hosts document libraries for apps for SharePoint and apps for Office. Administrators can upload apps for Office manifest files to the app catalog for use within their organization.

Set up an App Catalog on SharePoint 2013 Online

• Navigate to the Office 365 developer site. URL: https://portal.office.com/Home

• Click on Admin.
  

• In the left navigation task pane, expand Admin and then click on the SharePoint link.

• In the left navigation task pane, click on the apps link. Click on the App Catalog link.

• Select Create a new catalog site and then click on the Ok button.

• Specify all the details on the Create App Catalog Site Collection page as shown below. Click on the Ok button.

• An App Catalog site collection is created successfully as shown below.

Summary

Thus in this article you saw how to set up an app catalog on a SharePoint 2013 Online.