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Manual Creation of Modern Team Site?
Looked and did not see much of anything regarding this. I am getting the Modern Team site experience when using Groups. Why do new "manually" created site collections use the old Team Site? Is there a way to convert them? Is there a method to manually create Modern Team sites?
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Also, you can give a look to this interesting summary: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/pnp_articles/modern-experience-customizations-provisioning-sites
Thanks for the info - was aware of most. I guess what I really want to know is "why do I have to do all of these manual steps".
We currently do not use groups and are working through that now. The "site template" for modern sites would be very beneficial to me on its own.
Second, the fact that I can create a modern team site via the groups function and cannot be consistent with subsites is a bit of an issue with me also.
I think this is going to confuse/frustrate that common everyday consumer/local site admin.
I guess I will just keep monitoring and see if the site template can be created on its own in the SPOAdmin console...
Not sure what you mean with "manually"...
You can first create a Group, and a modern Team Site will be automatically created, or, conversely, you can create a modern Team Site (in the SharePoint landing page) and a Group will be automatically created.
On the other hand, you can create a classical Team Site (i.e. without a Group) in the SharePoint Admin Center.
At the moment it is not possible to connect a Group to an existing Team Site (i.e. to "groupify a Team Site).
Also, there is no automatic procedure to convert a classical Team Site in a modern one, apart from creating manually a modern Page and declaring it as the homepage.
I think this answered a question I came here to ask..
When I created a new (first) site collection for my tenant (mycompanyname.sharepoint.com) and select the 'Team Site' template option my default sharepoint site appears to be the 'classic' Team Site.
I'd like 'mycompanyname.sharepoint.com' to hit a modern site, so it appears declaring a modern page as the homesite is the only option for now correct?
Yes, you are correct.
Be aware that, as discussed in several other threads, the resulting homepage will not be perfectly identical to the default homepage of "real" modern team sites, but very close anyway.
- I don't think that functionality is currently available. It is my understanding that it will be coming, but I don't know when.
