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Sławomir Skowroński
Apr 20, 2017Copper Contributor
The dark side of SP O365 Group Sites.
 When I’m dealing with Modern Sites and Group sites I'm feeling like beta tester on development environment.  Before you start using Office365 (SharePoint) group sites makes sure that you know what ar...
Heiko Watz
Apr 24, 2017Iron Contributor
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?!
Sławomir Skowroński
Apr 24, 2017Copper Contributor
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.
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.