Modern Team Site without an Office 365 Group

These are my findings around Modern Sites without Office 365 Groups. It is, of course, a subject to change.

Today (2020-02-21) when you create a Modern Team Site without a group, you will get a site with the template STS#3. This oldie has been around for a while, hasn’t it?

I would always recommend creating Office 365 Group Connected sites.

How it is created

Through PowerShell/REST or from SharePoint Home, if your account is not allowed to create Office 365 Groups, it will automatically create a site without a group.

Site Creation Speed

It is really fast, much faster than the old STS#3, so something is different.

Custom Script

CustomScript is enabled. Which is the same as DenyAddAndCustomizePages=Disabled. CustomScript is a security risk, so I hope Microsoft will change that.

Groupifying

Yes, connecting to a new group is possible.

Listing Team Sites without Office 365 Groups

In SharePoint Admin you can filter them based on “Team Site (no Office 365 group)”

• group
• Office 365
• office365
• sharepoint
• teamsite