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underQualifried
May 07, 2026Brass Contributor
I don't want 100 different SharePoint sites. How to create private teams w/o a new site?
Guys. WTF. I've inherited a problem where a company of 50 people has 100 sharepoint sites - because users created different Teams for different projects, and Microsoft makes it incredibly opaque what...
Rob_Elliott
May 10, 2026Silver Contributor
You cannot create a private channel in a Team without it having an associated SharePoint site. This is because that is where documents for that private channel are stored so they can only be accessed by people in the team who members of that private channel.
For your SharePoint architecture, one thing you should consider is to have 1 hub site for the overall organization and then multiple associated sites for different departments, projects etc. The branding, color schemes etc cascade down to the associated sites.
Rob
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