Activate and Deactivate Features in SharePoint from Power Automate Flows

Enabling a SharePoint feature from a flow in Power Automate is easy, but how do you deactivate features?

Activate a feature in SharePoint

I’ve got a SharePoint site and I want to enable the Document ID Service feature. This is all simple.

_api/site/features/add('b50e3104-6812-424f-a011-cc90e6327318')

Using the above end point I can activate the feature. That GUID mentioned is the GUID for the Document ID Service feature.

Deactivate Features in SharePoint

You might things that deactivating a feature is as easy as removing the feature.

_api/site/features/remove('b50e3104-6812-424f-a011-cc90e6327318')

But when I run this I get a Forbidden warning.

{"odata.error":{"code":"-2147024891, System.UnauthorizedAccessException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))"}}}

clientRequestId: 0a85e720-d861-4788-b0eb-b25392b887b5

serviceRequestId: 35f1f9a0-4039-4000-832d-2539ec791a3d

While I do have the correct endpoint here.

Azure Automation and PnP Power Shell to the rescue

Within Azure Automation I create a runbook that runs the following code. Disabling and Enabling my feature using PnP.Powershell.

[CmdletBinding()]

param( 

            [OutputType([string[]])]



            [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]

            [string] 

            $SiteURL,



            [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]

            [string] 

            $FeatureId

         )




Import-Module PnP.PowerShell



Connect-PnPOnline $SiteUrl -ManagedIdentity



Disable-PnPFeature -Identity $FeatureId

Enable-PnPFeature -Identity $FeatureId

Then In my flow I can add a Create job action as follows and I’m able to restart (or deactivate) my feature.