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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
MicrosoftJust 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.
VesaJuvonen Would you by any chance know if it will become possible (and supported) to create your own site collection templates and use them when creating a new site collection - SharePoint Online only?
I have googled around and I am not really able to find a solution. I am not a developer, and even though I can create and use PowerShell scripts, I would rather be able to use an "old fashion" UI :-) like the "save site as template".
Or do you know for sure that using a custom template for site collection creation will never really be an option?
Thanks in advance :-)