CSOM tenant API support on-premise
A while ago I tried out the CSOM tenant API on-premise with SharePoint 2013. I then thought that I wasn’t able to get it working. Then “Vesku” published a new blog on this matter: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vesku/archive/2015/12/04/sharepoint-tenant-csom-object-support-in-sharepoint-2013-and-2016.aspx It appears that only a limited set of the tenant CSOM API is supported on-premise. For example, I tried to read the app catalog, but that does not work. He writes: All other methods of the Tenant object are not supported and will cause for exceptions due dependencies on site subscription, which typically does not exist in the on-premises deployment. Therefore, this fragment does not work: # http://zimmergren.net/technical/office-365-dev-tip-getting-all-apps-from-your-tenant-app-catalog-using-the-office-365-csom-api $coll = $tenant.GetAppInfoByName([string]::Empty) $tenant.Context.Load($coll) $tenant.Context.ExecuteQuery() Resulting in the exception: Exception calling ...