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The dark side of SP O365 Group Sites.
Group-based SharePoint != regular SharePoint, they are dramatically different animals that masquerade as the same animal
In general, I agree with your statement (though less gloom and doom), you HAVE to understand Groups and what they are before you just start throwing them out there. That is why we have turned off self-service group creation and have a carefully tailored process for what Groups we roll out and how they are managed.
Hi Brent,
Don't be so sure that you are ableto restore group sites even with MS Support... :-] Another problem is that I cannot create modern sites by PowerShell. As on attached screen shot - "GROUP#0 is not available for sites on this tenant". Is there anyone who experienced such error ?
Sławomir Skowroński, i'd use the "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=616183" endpoint instead of the sharepoint-based endpoint
Heiko Watz, ive got a few other threads in the O365 Groups area that go into detail on what we are doing:
Hi Brent,
Thanks for all this links, but can you provide just link of powershell code which will create few SPO Group Sites with assigned access for SharePoint security group. Many Thanks
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt219359(v=exchg.160).aspx
New-UnifiedGroup -DisplayName "Engineering Department" -Alias engineering
This working fine but do not does whole job which we have around this topic.
Regards
Slawomir
Hi Brent Ellis,
very interesting.
Can you tell me more about your process to create the groups for your users?
It is a workflow and finally your admin creates the group for the users?
According to my knowledge in the moment it is not possible to create a Group or a Team not with PowerShell and there is now API to do this – or not?!
- Hello @Heiko
I created group sites via button on the new Start/landing page under https://tenant.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx but you can do this also via Admin panel which might make some difference, and save you from some troubles described above. To set up modern group sites via PowerShell should depends on the setting you have in the SharePoint Admin Center under settings, so once you set to new experience all new creation of sites will be on the new experience.
