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Copper Contributor

Aug 11, 2017

Save Modern Team Site as a template & provision using Classic Team Site method (visible in SP Admin)

You can save a Modern Team Site (the Team Site that gets provisioned when you provision an Office 365 Group / Unified Group) as a template, then using the "Classic Team Site" provisioning process (Sh...

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VesaJuvonen

Microsoft

Apr 09, 2018

Just to be clear. Using save-site-as-a-template with modern team sites or publishing sites is NOT supported. You can always find aways with tenant admin permissions to achieve things, but the fact that it's doable does not mean it's supported.

Any sites created with the template which has been produced with this method can have unexpected issues in the future, so provided steps should never be used.

Best regards,

Vesa Juvonen, Senior Program Manager, SharePoint Engineering, Microsoft.

ilammi1055

Copper Contributor

Apr 02, 2020

VesaJuvonen

Can you propose an alternative way on how to use created team sites as a template (e.g. for project management this would be really helpfull). If you could just add a new predefined project team site (e.g. with lists of risks, issues etc) whenever you have a new project.

Thanks for the answer.