Now that we have seen the theory, let's go
to the lab environment and look at how we
can create sites through the Admin Center,
as well as through PowerShell. We are now
in the live environment, so let me open up
the browser over here, and I'm in the
SharePoint admin center already. And in
order to see all of the sites that we have
in our organization, we simply go to
Active sites over here. The other option
is Deleted sites, but we're going to talk
about that a bit later in this module.
From here, right now, I'm in a really low
resolution, so you do not see all of the
columns, so I'll just scroll to the right.
And as you can see, you have quite a bit
of information about the sites that you
can use in order to view them as you like,
and you can even customize the columns
that are shown according to your
preferences. You can search for sites. So
let's say here, I will search for charity
because I know I have a charity site, so I
can quickly access it. And I also see the
storage that I'm currently using inside my
tenant. Now if we want to create sites, I
have the Create button here at the top
left. So I'll click on it, and I will have
the pop‑up that appears where I have the
choice for a Team site, a Communication
site, and other options. So the Team site,
really the first option here is a team
site connected to an Office 365 group. If
you want a team site without an Office 365
group, you need to go into Other options,
and you choose Team site. It's really
confusing because the template, the name,
is exactly the same, but what it creates
in the back is different, so you really
need to be careful, depending on what you
want to create. So let's create this one
for the site name. I will say Our First
Team Site. It automatically proposes a URL
for me, but I can change it if I want, and
I will add WithTheUI with the user
interface telling me that it's available.
The Primary administrator, let me put Vlad
here, so Vlad Catrinescu. Select the
language, and I can also go into Advanced
settings and choose what time zone this
site will be configured at. And this is
really important that if all of your
company is in a certain time zone, that
you actually set the default on that time
because if not, all of the created add,
modified add times might be confusing for
users and also the storage limit for this
site. Now let me click on Finish. It will
take anywhere between 30 seconds and 1
minute for it to be created. Usually,
SharePoint sites without a group are
pretty fast, so let's give it a few
seconds, and then we'll go to our site.
While the site gets created, let's go
create another one, and this time I will
look at a communication site. And in the
communication site, we can also choose a
design. This is called a site design, and
you get three of them out of the box,
Topic, Showcase, and Blank; however, the
only difference between those designs are
the web parts on the front page. There's
no feature difference. There is no design
difference. They just come with different
web parts on the home page. So let me
start with Showcase. I will call it Comm
Site With the UI. Site owner I will put
Vlad, and we're going to get this site
created as well. And after that, what I
want to show you is also how to create a
group and a classic site. As you can see,
they both finished creating now, so let's
search for them. Let me search for
CommSiteWiththeUI. I can click directly on
the URL, and it will get me to the site. I
have a beautiful communication site that
is ready for me, and I will also search
for first where I should see
OurFirstTeamSiteWithTheUI site that got
created, and it's a team site without an
Office 365 group. However, if in the
future I want to add an Office 365 group
to this site from the Settings over here,
I can do Connect to new Office 365 Group,
so if you're not sure if you need a group
right away, you're better off to start
with a team site not connected to a group.
And if the need arises, you can always add
that group later. Now, finally, let's go
back to the Create button. I'll go in Team
site, and in Team site here because it's a
group, I might actually have more options.
So I'll call it here
GroupConnectedTeamSite. I have the Group
owner, so let me put Vlad Catrinescu. And
here I have some options about how
sensitive is your data. Those are group
classifications, so they're configured at
the group level, not at the SharePoint
level. And they're not really going to be
covered in this course because it's going
to be covered in the Pluralsight course on
how to manage groups and teams, but I just
wanted to show it to you so you can see
that you can have other options here,
depending what other configurations you
have in Office 365. And when you create a
group, you also have the choice between
public or private. So is it only members
that can access the site or anyone from
the organization can access it? Let's make
it private. I can add a site description,
click on Next. Then I can add additional
owner. So let me add John Smith here and
let me add Vanessa Le over here. Click on
Finish. It will take another 30 seconds to
1 minute. and the site will be created.
Well, this gets created, and it already
finished. Let's take a look at the final
options, which are classic, and because
classic is going away, I suspect you're
going to create less and less of those,
but it's still important to know where you
can find them. So we're going to go into
Other options, and here into Other
options, I'll have the Document Center,
which is classic, Enterprise Wiki, which
is classic, Publishing Portal, which is
classic, and then I have the option to go
to More templates. This will bring me to
the creator a site page from the classic
Admin Center so it will not look as
pretty, but here is where you're gonna
have all of the different templates for
classic. So you see, I have the Team site
classic experience, Blog, Project Site,
Community Site. I have all of the
eDiscovery Center, the Business
Intelligence Center, and all of the sites
that we used to have on premises in
SharePoint 2013 or later. This is it for
creating sites using the user interface.
Now let's take a look at PowerShell. Here
we have prepared the PowerShell scripts
that we have really covered in the slides.
If we want to create a new, modern,
standalone team site, I can use the new
SPOSite and give it the STS#3 template,
and I have already connected to SharePoint
Online before recording this video, so
that's why I'm able to run them right
away. If we want to create a communication
site, it's SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0. With the
new SPOSite PowerShell cmdlet, we cannot
give it that site design, so we cannot
give it, for example, like we can do a PnP
and say if it's a showcase, a topic, or
blank. So, really, when we use the new
SPOSite, we just tell it it'll be a
SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0, and it will create a
blank communication site. Then, if we want
to create a team site with an Office 365
group, in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem,
Office 365 groups are really created using
the Exchange Online PowerShell module or
the Azure Active Directory PowerShell
module, but cannot be created with a
SharePoint one. However, the PnP one
allows you to create them using the
SharePoint APIs. So we can create it.
New‑PnPSite, give it a TeamSite type, and
then the alias, which will become also the
email address of the group. I'm not going
to run all of them just for the interest
of time. You have all of the PowerShell
cmdlets here that you can run, and all of
the scripts will be able to be downloaded
from the exercise files of the course. Now
that we have seen how to create sites
using both the Admin Center and
PowerShell, let's go back to the slides
and take a look at how do we update site properties?