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Toby McDaid
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Jul 18, 2019
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Deleting/Managing SharePoint sites that have been automatically created from MS Teams?

One of the things we've found tricky to manage is the feature where when you create a new team in MS Teams, a SharePoint site is automatically created and attached to it.   Back when we first start...
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  • VasimShah's avatar
    VasimShah
    Jul 18, 2019

    Toby McDaid 

     

    1.) in O365 in the New SharePoint Admin Center you can filter the sites. In the Filter Select "Office 365 group Sites" and it will give you the team sites. All Teams Site is associated with a TEAMS.

     

    2.) If you delete the Site which belongs to a Team, then it will delete the group and all its resources, including the Outlook mailbox and calendar, and any Teams channels. You will have 30 days to restore the group.

     

    3.) By default when you create a New Team, here's what gets created: A new O365 group, a SharePoint Online Site and document library to store teams files, an Exchange Online Shared Mailbox and Calendar, a OneNote notebook. Sadly, I have not come across any article or resource about disabling the link between the Team and SharePoint site. Any document which is shared in that Team or Channels in that team, gets stored in the Document Library and for each channel a folder is created in the document library. You can manage the contents of that Site by enabling the custom scripting options in the TeamSite also If you want to disable FileShare in Teams I am not sure if that is an option for now. 

     

    I hope it helps.

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Carlos_Marins
Iron Contributor
Jul 18, 2019

Hey Toby McDaid,

 

I know the integration between Teams and SharePoint can get  a bit messy sometimes. I'll give you my 2 cents.

 

  1. Not sure you can check that in the Admin Center. Maybe you can use PowerShell or Graph to check if a Sharepoint site has a Team connected to it
  2. I have tested it and, to my surprise, it doesn't. Although your team will continue to exist, the Files section seems to no longer display anything, but I could still send messages.
  3. Your users can go to "<tenant>.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx" and create a Comunication Site, which should create a site not connected to a Team. Keep in mind that all the documents stored in the Teams is still in SharePoint. So it may become messy to manage in Teams but you can always go to the respective site and manage the files.

Hope it helps,

Regards,

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