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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...
You've diagnosed it right, the naming is just terrible.
Every Team, M365 Group and Private Channel gets its own SharePoint site, and that's the design rather than a fault. A Team is a bundle of site, mailbox, Planner and group, and you can't have one piece without the rest.
So the goal is fewer Teams, not fewer sites:
- Most projects need a permission-scoped folder in your main site rather than a Team.
- Keep Teams for things that genuinely need chat, meetings and a mailbox.
- You're at 100 because anyone can create one. Restrict Group creation through Entra ID policy.
- For the existing mess, pull Usage reports, archive dead sites, and move the "just a folder" ones back into your main site.
There's no hidden setting for this. It comes down to not treating "private space for a project" as "new Team.