First published on MSDN on Aug 07, 2018
In SharePoint Online, modern team sites are created with an associated Office 365 group, by default. Someone recently asked me if there was a way to create a modern team site without the Office 365 group. The way to do it is via creating the site via the APIs or PowerShell, and choosing the STS#3 template. If you're going to use SharePoint PnP PowerShell , you'll need to leverage the New-PnPTenantSite command to create the site. (This commandlet is for legacy site types) If you want to create a modern team site with the O365 group, or communications sites (no O365 group), you'll need to use the New-PnPSite commandlet.
