Now that we have seen the theory, let's go
to the lab and look at the managing site
creation settings in action. I am now in
the demo environment, and let me open up
the browser here. First of all, let's just
look at what we're trying to control here,
a user that goes on the SharePoint home,
and they simply go at the SharePoint home
by clicking the SharePoint logo at the
top. They're going to have the options to
create the site or create a news post
directly from the SharePoint home. What
we're trying to control using the managing
site creation settings are, first of all,
whether the Create site button is shown or
not, and once users click the Create site
button, what options do they have? So
let's take a look at the admin side of
things, and I have the admin center opened
up over here. In order to manage the site
creation settings, I have to go into
tenant settings here, and then I will go
into Site creation. In the modern admin
center, I only have a few options, the
first one being what managed path do I
want to create new team sites under,
whether it's sites or teams. And because
we're in SharePoint Online, we cannot
create additional ones, so I will leave it
at sites. I also need to choose the
default time zone and whether or not do I
let users create new sites or not. This
actually turns it off completely, and it
will make sure that users cannot create
sites from the SharePoint home. I can also
set the default storage limit for new
sites. So if a site gets automatically
created, how much storage should it have
if you have the storage set on Manual as
we have looked at in the previous demo? If
we want to see more settings, we actually
have to go into the classic settings page.
As you have seen throughout the course, a
lot of settings are in modern, but there's
a lot more options in classic, and those
settings might come to the modern admin
center in the future, but for now, at the
time of recording this course, they are
only in the classic tenant setting
experience. So let me just go to the Site
Creation a bit lower here, and here I have
Site Creation. Some of the settings are
the same, so I can show or hide the Create
site command. I also have, When users
select the Create site command, do I want
to create a new team site or communication
site? So this will create a new site, a
full site collection, or a classic team
subsite. I have the managed path option
again between sites and teams. Do I want
to have a secondary contact? Let's say I
will put it to Required. And I can also
set up a custom form that will be shown
when people click the See other options.
And this is really useful if you have your
own provisioning engine. And this is
something that I have my own provisioning
setting, my own app for where people can
request new sites over here, so I have
just added the URL to that SharePoint
site. But, of course, if you have a
premade form directly, whether it's
Microsoft Forms, SharePoint list, or Power
Apps, you could link directly to that
Power App. You simply put in the URL. Then
for subsites, do I want to hide the
Subsite command, show the Subsite command
only for classic site, or show it for all
sites? I highly recommend that you go
between the first two options as if you
have subsites in modern sites, it's really
not a great experience for users, so I'd
really stick at one of the first two. Now
let me click on OK. Remember, it might
take quite some time until those actually
work when users try them, so don't stress
out if it's not going to work already. I
have already added the form a few hours
before recording this demo just so we can
at least see that portion. Let me now go
into Create a new site, and I will just
select a Team site to start with. And if I
go here, See other options, it'll bring me
to the Collab Center URL that I had set as
my custom form, but if I wanted to, I
could've went directly to the URL of the
Power Apps. This is it for the demo. We
have now seen how to manage site creation
in SharePoint Online. Now let's go back to the slides and talk about access control.