Sitecollectionusingwebtemplate.ps1

#Credentials to connect to office 365 site collection url 
$url ="https://velegandla.sharepoint.com/sites/blog"
$username="[email protected]"
$password="yourpassword"
$Password = $password |ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -force

Write-Host "Load CSOM libraries" -foregroundcolor black -backgroundcolor yellow
Set-Location $PSScriptRoot
Add-Type -Path (Resolve-Path "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll")
Add-Type -Path (Resolve-Path "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll")
Write-Host "CSOM libraries loaded successfully" -foregroundcolor black -backgroundcolor Green 

Write-Host "authenticate to SharePoint Online Tenant site $url and get ClientContext object" -foregroundcolor black -backgroundcolor yellow  
$Context = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($url) 
$credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($username, $password) 
$Context.Credentials = $credentials 
$context.RequestTimeOut = 5000 * 60 * 10;
$web = $context.Web
$site = $context.Site 
$context.Load($web)
$context.Load($site)
try
{
  $context.ExecuteQuery()
  Write-Host "authenticateed to SharePoint Online site collection $url and get ClientContext object succeefully" -foregroundcolor black -backgroundcolor Green
}
catch
{
  Write-Host "Not able to authenticateed to SharePoint Online site collection $url $_.Exception.Message" -foregroundcolor black -backgroundcolor Red
  return
}

#Apply webtemplate to create site collection
Write-Host "provisioning site collection using custom webtemplate" -foregroundcolor black -backgroundcolor yellow  
$web.ApplyWebTemplate("{35F87D57-3004-428B-A5EC-B4B840E38FB6}#mycustomwebtemplate")
try
{
$context.ExecuteQuery();
Write-Host "site collection provisioned successfully using custom webtemplate" -foregroundcolor black -backgroundcolor Green 
}
catch
{
Write-Host "Error while provisioning  the Site collection using custom webtemplate" $_.Exception.Message -foregroundcolor black -backgroundcolor RED
}

Thank you for your invaluable work !
Know you a way to load and to activate the template in CSOM.

In advance thank you

Best regard