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Microsoft

Feb 23, 2017

UPDATE: Create Office 365 Groups with team sites from SharePoint home moving beyond First Release

We recently completed the worldwide rollout for Office 365 Groups getting full-powered SharePoint team sites at the end of January 2017. Our next step is to now bring the ability to create SharePoin...

Bronze Contributor

May 05, 2017

The "Create Site" is managed by your SharePoint Administrator (in the SharePoint Settings) - additionally, classic SharePoint Sites should be able to be created from the SiteCollections Administration menu.

Anonymous

May 05, 2017

Hi Ivan,

Thanks. Actually I am the administrator myself. I found below setting and after I change it to the third button "A classic site", I can create a traditional site now.

It's just a bit confusing because the default setting is "A site with an Office365 group or a classic site", which I expect it will let me choose either one. But indeed when I click "create site" it just assume I am creating an O365 group site without ever give me a choice.

ssquires
Microsoft
May 05, 2017
Hi Deleted - for more information on the admin site creation settings check out this help article:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-site-creation-in-SharePoint-Online-e72844a3-0171-47c9-befb-e98b23e2dcf9?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

The purpose of the first link - modern or classic is to support those who want to restrict O365 group creation to a subset of users (so those not in that group would get the classic option to create a team site subweb) - but unless this restriction is set (see article above for details on setting these AAD properties) the form will default to creating a modern, group-connected team site collection.