Forum Discussion
Groups provisioning options
We need greater control of the Groups provisioning process. Especially the SharePoint content.
We need to be able to set a few things, either globally in the administration console; by code or in the UI.
We must be able to select the followings:
- - Default path for groups. We want standard sites under /Sites and Groups under /Teams. We only have on global setting in the admin console.
- - Timezone. Not everyone work in the Redmond timezone.
- - Delault language. Once the tenant created, the default cannot be changed. We need a way to change the default and/or set it by site.
There are uservoices for these items in both SharePoint and Office 365 area.
- https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/286611-office-365-groups/suggestions/14764584-time-zone-settings-for-office-365-groups
- https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-admin/suggestions/6835268-tenant-wide-time-zone-setting-for-sharepoint-at-l
- https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/286611-office-365-groups/suggestions/8238162-change-groups-sites-url-url
- https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/20300986-create-groups-sites-under-teams-and-communication
- https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-admin/suggestions/32557834-change-tenant-default-language
- https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/15105846-select-the-default-language-of-automatically-creat
- https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/20309731-add-language-picker-to-the-site-creation-wizard
- https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/30953740-change-the-default-language-after-the-sharepoint-s
I saw a roadmap item trhat seems to be related but have no details. Can we get some information about it?
SharePoint: select a language at site creation
Please help us deliver better solutions.
Mark-Kashman and cfiessinger can you bring the right persone to this discussion?
5 Replies
- cfiessinger
Microsoft
adding Tejas Mehta
Looks like that while I was posting that, Mark-Kashman was posting that https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Updates-to-SharePoint-self-service-site-creation/bc-p/219452#M2518
It contains a few answers.
Have you seen the guidance at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/sharepoint-site-provisioning-solutions
Chris O'Brienhas a great approach at https://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2018/01/site-designs-scripts-or-pnp-templates.html and Martina Grom has another good approach at http://blog.atwork.at/post/2017/09/28/Provisioning-an-Office-365-group-with-an-approval-flow-and-Azure-functions-part-1
try https://www.petri.com/sharepoint-online-groups-regional-settings to fix the regional settings.
Dean,
We can only set default language at creation time for classic sites. If we create a modern team site, we cannot. It is possible to enable / disable languages afterward and change the timezone but not the default language.
