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Swee Ching Ho's avatar
Swee Ching Ho
Copper Contributor
Jun 08, 2017

Provision O365 Groups with custom SharePoint site template possible?

While traditional team sites can be provisioned using a customized self-service site provisioning wizard to create a customized team sites (e.g. with custom home page, doclibs, lists, folder structur...
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Alan Marshall's avatar
Alan Marshall
Iron Contributor
Nov 19, 2017
At the moment, you will need to build a provisioning solution using either custom code using CSOM and the PnP or Flow and the Microsoft Graph API. Using either of these methods, you can build your own group request form and then control the creation process and provision site assets like content types, columns and lists. I got POC working using Flow and the Graph API to create the group but haven't got to configuring the created site yet.
The other option coming up is the use of a Site Design that is defined in JSON with all the attributes mentioned in this conversation, this was announced at Ignite in a session on the theming of sites.
  • Michael Armstrong's avatar
    Michael Armstrong
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 25, 2018

    Hi Alan,

     

    Do you have any more information on this? I'm looking to hook into the automatic group site creation process to apply a custom template, whether the group site is created via SharePoint, or from O365 / Outlook. Sounds like you've poc'd this, and I'd love to learn more about how you did it.

     

    Thanks!

      • Michael Armstrong's avatar
        Michael Armstrong
        Copper Contributor
        Jan 25, 2018

        Thanks Stephen. That's exactly what I was looking for, with one exception. While this is possible when creating team sites from SharePoint, is there any way to apply this to sites that are automatically created when creating a new group elsewhere, such as Outlook? SharePoint automatically creates a new team site for this group, but doesn't provide the option to chose a template, so I'm wondering if I can tap into a webhook, or how I would be able to apply this to that scenario. Any info is appreciated!

         

        Thanks. 

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