Web Template Group #0 Is Not Available for Sites on This Tenant

The blog explains the issue with template GROUP#0 when trying to create sites with this template type. Encountering an issue while attempting to create a site with template GROUP#0 using the SPO PowerShell module. The problem lies in the SPO PowerShell version's lack of support for generating sites with "GROUP#0."

Issue Description

The issue occurs when you are trying to site with template GROUP#0 using SPO PowerShell module. Below is the screen shot for reference.

Reason

The SPO PowerShell version do not support creating sites with “GROUP#0”.

A brief information about sites with template “GROUP#0’. When you create a team it in turn creates a SPO site with template “GROUP#0’. If you want to create SharePoint site and may be in future it might need a team, then it would be a case to create a site first and turn off the teams for it. Later on you can turn on the teams, by clicking on the link that appears on the quick launch.

Fix

For creating the sites with “GROUP#0” with currently no teams associated, use the PnP PowerShell module command.

New-PnPSite -Type TeamSite -Title "SITETITLE" -Alias "SITEALIAS" -Description "SITEDESCRIPTION" -Owners "SITEOWNEREMAIL"

References

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1436261/create-site-using-template-group-0-using-powershel