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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..
Hello, Brent - I was wondering how you guys are managing governance of Group. I've few questions if you can answer
1. Since all the group site is a Site Collection, Is there any central location from where we can see list of all the Groups
2. How can we deploy predefined template (list/library/web part) so it is available by default to all groups
3. Is there any we can setup default template for Groups?
Thanks,
Satish
I am looking at doing the reverse.
We launched with a Group - but would prefer to convert this to a SharePoint Team site.
Is anyone aware of this being an option?
- What do you mean to convert to a SharePoint Team site? As part of the Group you already have a SPO Site (A modern one) and AFAIK, there is no way to delete the Group and keep the site
- Hello Juan,
Again I can't agree with you :-) Your theory with my practice do not match :-) I've got SP group site originally created as should be with a group, but now group is deleted. Unfortunately button "group Conversation" is still on the site, not working and there is no way to assign another group.
regards
Slawomir - thanks Juan - correct - we have found the Groups have too 'loose' document controls so want to shift back to a SPO site in order to provide better document governance.
Am wondering how I remove the group from appearing in members Outlook?To be clear:
As Juan said, when you create a (modern) team site, you will automatically get a Group associated with the team site. There is no official way to delete the Group without deleting also the associated team site. There have been reports of sites lingering after the deletion of the associated Group, but this is a bug, not a feature...
On the other hand, you can still create a (classic) team site, i.e. without an associated Group, in the SPO admin center, but at some point in the future all classic team sites will be "groupified", i.e. associated automatically with a Group. It's not clear at the moment if such "groupification" will be mandatory or optional: we will see...
So, it looks like, in Microsoft plans,, Groups and team sites will be indissolubly connected each other.
All this said, we come back to your post. You say that you found that "Groups have too loose document controls". What do you mean exactly? Wich controls do you think are more "tight" in classic team sites? Just curious...
