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Save Modern Team Site as a template & provision using Classic Team Site method (visible in SP Admin)
What is the correct, support way to create Site templates? I have many sites (all the same layout) that will need building very soon. As it stands I will have to create every single site by hand? Very inefficient. To read that 'Save as Template' was once a thing but now unavailable and unsupported sounds crazy to me. Especially when a lot of emphasis is being put on Power Automate, and business automation.
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As mentioned in this thread - classic "Save site as as template" which was introduced back in 2008 will not work for modern sites. This is by design. You can however use for example PnP PowerShell to export and import sites with the tenant template capability, which also look book site at httts://lookbook.microsoft.com is using.
If you need to replicate similar sites, using PowerShell is definitely the most efficient way to do that.
Thank you. I am new to the MS eco system. So powershell is also very new to me. Is there any documentation I can follow to achieve this?
And do you know if it is possible to then use Power Automate to automate the creation of a Team site using the template? and then create the MS Team from this? As we constantly have projects going live, all with the same template. To Be able to automate this process is another step in allowing the company to scale.
Many thanks
