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SharePoint Online: Create Modern Team Site without Office 365 Group

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Requirement: Create a modern team site without a group in SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online: Create a modern Team Site without Group

A SharePoint site collection is a logical group of sites with a common top-level site and subsites organized as a hierarchy. Every site collection shares a common top site, navigation, security, content types, etc. By default, modern team sites are created with an associated Office 365 group in SharePoint Online. Can we create a modern team site without creating a group? Yes, To create a modern SharePoint Online Site collection without creating groups, follow these steps:

  • Login to New SharePoint Admin Center as a tenant admin or SharePoint Online Administrator. 
  • Click on Sites >> Active Sites from left navigation >> Click on “Create” >> and then “Private Site collection” to create a new site collection.
  • Click on “Other Options” to create a modern team site without Office 365 group.
    sharepoint online create modern site without group
  • Pick the site template such as “Team site”, Provide the site Name, URL, Administrator options and click on “Finish” to create a site collection in SharePoint Online.
    sharepoint online create modern team site without group

Wait for a moment, and your site collection should appear in the site collections list. Now, let’s see how to create a modern team site without a group in SharePoint Online using PowerShell.

PowerShell to Create Modern site without a Group in SharePoint Online:

Office 365 groups connect a bunch of tools from the Office 365 suite together by setting the same permissions across SharePoint, Teams, Planner, Outlook, etc. However, at times you may just need a standard SharePoint site without Office 365 groups. Here is the PowerShell to create a team site without a group:

#Define Variables
$AdminCenterURL = "https://crescent-Admin.sharepoint.com"
$SiteURL = "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/procurement"
$SiteTitle = "Crescent Procurement Portal"
$SiteOwner = "[email protected]"
$Template = "STS#3" #Modern Team Site without O365 group
$Timezone = 4
 
#Get Credentials to connect
$Cred = Get-Credential
 
Try
{
    #Connect to Tenant Admin
    Connect-PnPOnline -URL $AdminCenterURL -Credential $Cred
     
    #Check if site exists already
    $Site = Get-PnPTenantSite | Where {$_.Url -eq $SiteURL}
 
    If ($Site -eq $null)
    {
        #sharepoint online pnp powershell to create modern team site without group
        New-PnPTenantSite -Url $SiteURL -Owner $SiteOwner -Title $SiteTitle -Template $Template -TimeZone $TimeZone -RemoveDeletedSite
        write-host "Site Collection $($SiteURL) Created Successfully!" -foregroundcolor Green
    }
    else
    {
        write-host "Site $($SiteURL) exists already!" -foregroundcolor Yellow
    }
}
catch {
    write-host "Error: $($_.Exception.Message)" -foregroundcolor Red
}

You can also create a modern site with SharePoint Online Management Shell, as:

#Connect to SharePoint Online
Connect-SPOService -url "https://Crescent-admin.sharepoint.com" -Credential (Get-credential)
 
#Create a modern team site
New-SPOSite -Url "https://Crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/ITHub" -Owner "[email protected]" -StorageQuota 2048 -Title "Crescent IT Hub" -Template "STS#3"

At a later point, If you would like to connect your SharePoint Online site with a new Microsoft 365 group, you can do so: How to Connect Existing SharePoint Online Team Sites to New Office 365 Group?

Salaudeen Rajack

Salaudeen Rajack is a SharePoint Architect with Two decades of SharePoint Experience. He loves sharing his knowledge and experiences with the SharePoint community, through his real-world articles!

9 thoughts on “SharePoint Online: Create Modern Team Site without Office 365 Group”

  • Can you prevent users from creating public groups? and can only create private sites?

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  • can this script (New-PnPTenantSite) add the Azure AD security group rather than a user? I want to make the SharePoint administrator group as a primary owner rather than a user. I tried using below command but it doesn’t work.
    $ObjectID = “#######”
    New-PnPTenantSite -Owners “c:0o.c|federateddirectoryclaimprovider|$ObjectID

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  • also, where can I find the timezone numbers? Where’s timezone 4? I live in The Netherlands, what timezone would that be?

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  • Hi @Salaudeen Rajack,
    Thanks for the PS script.

    I have a question, pls.

    I see you are setting Timezone, which I changed to 2 as I’m in London – “$Timezone = 2”.
    I also want at the same time to set the site’s Locale to 2057 (UK) as the script creates site with US locale – date format, year start etc.

    So far I could not incorporate Locale to be set to “$Locale = 2057” as it brings an error:
    “Error: The property ‘Locale’ cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists and can be set.”

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

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  • Cannot access a site, after creating it. It says, I do not have permissions to access it. What’s the problem?

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