Create a MS Teams group using an existing SharePoint Online Site

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Create a MS Teams group using an existing SharePoint Online Site

CHOU, DAVID 11

I have an existing SharePoint Online site already and I want to create a MS teams group using this existing SharePoint Online site. If I create a MS Teams group from scratch, it will automatically create another SharePoint Online site. I want to use this existing site.

Slobodan Lefterov 5 Reputation points

2024-05-03T11:44:47.5933333+00:00

If the "Add real-time chat" feature isn't available on your SharePoint site, the workaround I use is creating a team from Teams, choose "More create team options", from the new window choose "From group" and then just find your group associated with the SharePoint site.

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Slobodan Lefterov 5 Reputation points

2024-05-03T11:44:47.5933333+00:00

If the "Add real-time chat" feature isn't available on your SharePoint site, the workaround I use is creating a team from Teams, choose "More create team options", from the new window choose "From group" and then just find your group associated with the SharePoint site.

Answer 1

Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,756 Microsoft External Staff

@CHOU, DAVID ,

You can create a Microsoft Teams from a SharePoint team site as below:

Navigate to a group-connected team site you own
Select Add real-time chat in the lower left corner of the home page of your team site.
Select Add real-time chat to open a panel that walks site owners through a quick tour about the value of adding Microsoft Teams capability to their SharePoint sites.
Select Continue to view options to add SharePoint resources as tabs in Teams. Select SharePoint pages, news posts, lists, and document libraries to add to Microsoft Teams that enables your team to work in one place.
Select Add Teams to create your new Team channel that contains the selected resources as tabs.
Find the resources you selected as tabs in the General channel of your new team.
A link to the Teams channel now appears in the site navigation of your SharePoint team site.

For more details, please pay attention to Create a Microsoft Team from a SharePoint team site part in this article.

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CHOU, DAVID 11 Reputation points

2021-09-30T23:14:52.967+00:00

Hi Sharon @Sharon Zhao-MSFT , thanks for the information. I cannot locate "Add real-time chat" on the SharePoint team site. It is not an option that is available. emphasized text
Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,756 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-10-01T08:34:48.643+00:00

@CHOU, DAVID ,
Please check if your site is a SharePoint Team site. I tested this in my lab. It works well.
CHOU, DAVID 11 Reputation points

2021-10-01T15:49:59.037+00:00

@Sharon Zhao-MSFT How do I know if my site is a SharePoint Team site or not? Thanks.
Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,756 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-10-05T08:56:14.397+00:00

@CHOU, DAVID ,

You can distinguish the Communication site and Teams site by the page layout as below:
Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,756 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-10-08T08:21:31.133+00:00

@CHOU, DAVID ,

Do you check the type?

If my reply helps, please feel free to accept it as answer to benefit more people with the same problem.

Have a nice day!
CHOU, DAVID 11 Reputation points

2021-10-08T16:11:53.857+00:00

Hi @Sharon Zhao-MSFT I did check my SharePoint site is a team site but I do not have the rights to connect to new Microsoft 365 group and I don't have the option to add real-time chat. I think I need to be able to add to a new Microsoft 365 group first before I have this option.
Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,756 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-10-12T07:17:06.5+00:00

@CHOU, DAVID ,

You could try to find the option in the trumpet button as below:
CHOU, DAVID 11 Reputation points

2021-10-13T17:34:12.89+00:00

@Sharon Zhao-MSFT I do not have this option when I click the trumpet button.
Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,756 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-10-14T06:44:17.367+00:00

@CHOU, DAVID ,

Perhaps, you could try @Sharath Kumar Aluri 's script to create a teams and connect to existing SharePoint Online site.

Answer 2

If you have SharePoint Online Site which is connected to Office 365 Group, then you just create a teams and connecting to existing SharePoint Online site using below script.

# Input Parameters  
$siteURL="https://globalsp.sharepoint.com/sites/sha01"  
$tenantURL="https://globalsp-admin.sharepoint.com"  
$credential = Get-Credential  

# Connect to Microsoft Teams  
Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $credential  

# Connectto SharePoint Online Service  
Connect-SPOService -Url $tenantURL -Credential $credential  
$site = Get-SPOSite -Identity $siteURL  

# Create Team from the Site associated O365 Group 
New-Team -GroupId $site.GroupId.Guid

Thanks & Regards,
Sharath Aluri

Answer 3

Charles Yeomans 1

This link is quite useful:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-microsoft-team-from-sharepoint-545973b6-c38f-426a-b2b6-16405a561628

Answer 4

Charles Yeomans 1

This link is quite useful:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-microsoft-team-from-sharepoint-545973b6-c38f-426a-b2b6-16405a561628

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