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UPDATE: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups moving beyond First Release
How will we know when the change has happened? I keep checking every day to see if the "Create site" link opens to create a group, or checking my Office 365 Groups to see if they have a team site yet. But I'm wondering if there's a better way to know/check?
- No better way to know/check...by the way, you can directly try modern site creation by typing the following Url in your browser: https://<YourTenant>.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/creategroup.aspx
I actually just noticed in our admin settings that the section for "Site Creation" has changed. It now shows the option to create "A site with an Office 365 group or classic site", "A site with an Office 365 group", or "A classic site." So it seems like our environment has been updated.
However, I created a site from the homepage, and it did not create a group. We have the create "A site with an Office 365 group or classic site" option chosen, but I was not prompted with anything when I created the site.
Does this mean that it's not completely rolled out to us yet?
FYI from what I found, even the admin pages have First Release features so make sure your administraion account (if you use a secondary account like my company) is part of the First Feature group or you will not see all the newest settings. Found out the hard way.
Thanks Juan Carlos. Unfortunately, that url didn't work for me. Just took me to a blank page. Hopefully I get the updates soon! They said it'll be rolled out by the end of the month... But we shall see.
Update:
Never mind, the group was not created HOWEVER, I was able to step through the group creation menus and was lead to believe that I successfully created a group.Again, groups are proving to be more challenging in terms of Governance and control. They fill a need but at this point I cannot advocate them for the everyday user as their are too many options and confusing interface issues. For instance the files view doe not have folders. How is that possible?Actually the group was created, it jsut took time...
How come there is no centralized way to block groups from being created? I thought we had lcked things down and then tried the link provided _layouts/15/creategroup.aspx and a group was created. We want to control this administratively but there seem to be all sorts of backdoors to create a group, Planner, the new Time tracking app, PowerBI, etc.
