We will have to provision an instance of User Profile Service Application before we can start using the App Launcher.īefore we start creating the User Profile Service Application, we will create My Site site collection, which we will have to specify during the UPS creation, else we may get the error message given below. This is because it depends directly on the User Profile Service. However, by default, the App Launcher will be missing in the suite bar, as shown below. This makes it easy to find the relevant sites, apps, and the resources to do your job. It may take up to 24 hours for these changes to flow through to SharePoint Online and until you can see the Web Designer Galleries options in Site Settings.Now in addition to these, with the new SharePoint 2016 Feature Pack 1, which was rolled out in November 2016, we can also add our own custom tiles that point to other SharePoint sites, external sites, legacy apps and more. Select the option to Allow and save the changes. Select Settings at the bottom of the list on the left.

This will take you to the Sharepoint admin center as shown above. In the bottom left of the Admin portal, select SharePoint under Admin. Login to the Office 365 portal as an administrator and select the Admin icon from the App launcher. To re-enable this scripting option so you can see the Web Designer Galleries, do the following: So, Microsoft has elected to disable this by default. The reason that it no longer appears is because many of the Gallery options require scripting and this comes with security issues. If you are working with SharePoint Online and you go to Site Settings you might not see Web Designer Galleries displayed like so:

Office 365 app launcher missing