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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...
VesaJuvonen
Microsoft
Microsoft
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