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underQualifried
May 07, 2026Iron 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...
Daniel_H_941
May 13, 2026Copper Contributor
If you don't need all the extras associated with creating a Teams channel, then why not just create a group chat, rename it based on the project type or name, so it's organized in each person's chat list and then go from there. You can still file share and collaborate within the chat without getting weighed down by all the extra stuff that goes along with SharePoint.
This reserves SharePoint for dedicated, long-term groups or programs that would benefit from document libraries, Teams channel, Pages, etc.