Dear community, I need help converting my sharepoint communication site to a team site. I have a lot of content on it so just creating a brand new one will take a very long time. If there is any way to migrate the sharepoints or move the pages ? It would be great if someone could help me out! Thank you community!

Are you trying to add Teams to it or what are you trying to get from doing so? There is no official convert option but I have seen people groupify comm site in the paste just not sure if it works still and any side affects of doing so.

Rob Ellis wrote:You can create half a million site collections - for example under the /sites/ or /teams/ managed paths.Why does your team site have to be at the root site url?Rob, it is not the point what I can do from choices that do not suit my client, I need a straight answer is this possible or not. I know that root site can be other type than Communication, seen it with tenants created few months ago and earlier when they were not forcing this type of site, as you can see here: The question is: can I do it now?

New(ish) tenants get Comm sites at the root, old tenants will have classic Team sites. It isn't possible to change in a supported manner and when it is possible to change, the supported change will be from classic Team site -> Comm site.

Thank you, Trevor Seward I appreciate the concrete answer. Let's put asside now the discussion how Microsoft ruins the productivity every time they "improve" the user experience 😡

I'd asked the same question of my technical support as I needed to add a site to a hub, but it's already a communications site and a communications site can't have a hub site association with another communications site. I was told categorically that converting it back to a team site wasn't possible.RobLos Gallardos

Convert communication to team site sharepoint

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Aug 03, 2018
Are you trying to add Teams to it or what are you trying to get from doing so? There is no official convert option but I have seen people groupify comm site in the paste just not sure if it works still and any side affects of doing so.
- jcgonzalezmartin
  MVP
  Aug 03, 2018
  I have also taken part of some conversation about "Groupifying" a communication site, and if you do that, you are doing at some risk since it's not supported ^-^. If you need to "move" your pages from a communication site to a team site:
  (1) Try to use the Move To / Copy To options in the site pages library.
  (2) As an alternative, use PnP to extract the template of your site and provisiong only pages
  (3) Do a POC of copying content from the communication site to the team site using a trial version of a migration tool to see if it work
  (4) Develop your own "migration stuff"
  - Vladan Aleksić
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 25, 2019
    jcgonzalezmartin, Deleted, is there by any chance any progress on this issue? The thing is that root SP for new tenants is automatically created as Communications Site, and I need a Team site experience in one particular case, with classic menu on the left side.
    
    I have tried to delete the root site and create a new one, but SP administration center then allows me to create sites only in subfolders like “/teams” and similar. Any help is appreciated.

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