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Convert SharePoint Team site to Office Group
The option to groupify an existing classic team site has been promised by MS.
No ETA though..
This is of real interest to us. Our default Sharepoint site that was created when we joined O365 is "Company Name Team Site."
Which is a bit confusing as it isn't a "Team" at all. I'd love to move this into Teams. The added benefit is everyone we set up as a new user automatically has access to it.
- Mmm...I think we are talking about different needs over here...if we finally have the ability of "groupfy" a classic site as commented by Salvatore, it does not meant we will be able to "teamfy" this site. I agree that with Microsoft Teams, a site called "Team site" might be confusing, but I can tell that this way of naming SharePoint sites has been there since ages
Thanks jcgonzalezmartin. I understand what you are saying. But if we "groupfy" a site, then it can be "teamfied" too by creating a team, then adopting that group.
By the way, "groupfy" and "teamfy" should be powershell commands.
I just want a team that is a "global team" meaning all users are always part of it, like the default sharepoint site, so no maint has to be done when users are added/removed.
It seems MS is hiding sharepoint. I went to create a Sharepoint site last week to be a file archive, and it would only create a group via the O365 "create site" command. I'm generally ok with that, and will be totally ok with it when groups have calendars we can use via Teams.
If they are getting rid of Sharepoint - i.e. moving it to the background to do all of the heavy lifting but not really exposing the UI much - then let us migrate existing sharepoints to teams via groups.You can still create a classic team site (i.e. without a connected Group) in the SharePoint Admin Center.
