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Office 365 – SharePoint creating sites with the name ‘teams’

Office 365 – SharePoint creating sites with the name ‘teams’

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Pieter Veenstra

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Today I tried to create a new site. That’s easy! No blog needed for that.

New team site
New team site

When I clicked on Ok I got:

Sorry, something went wrong
“teams” cannot be used as a site name. Site names cannot contain certain reserved words and cannot begin with an underscore. Please enter a different name.

Aaahhh, Can I really not create a sub site with the name teams?

I tried this using PowerShell as well and the same message appear:

New-SPOWeb : “teams” cannot be used as a site name. Site names cannot contain certain reserved words and cannot begin with an underscore. Please enter a different name.

 I’ve seen before that you can’t create a site called search. As there is a search site there already. Why teams is not possible I’m not sure about as https:/ /mytenant.sharepoint.com/teams doesn’t exist.
Thanks to Micah commenting on this post I found the following use of teams. When creating site collections the use of the teams url is clear

createsitecollection

So other variations of the same error are:

“sites” cannot be used as a site name. Site names cannot contain certain reserved words and cannot begin with an underscore

“search” cannot be used as a site name. Site names cannot contain certain reserved words and cannot begin with an underscore

for sites and search I don’t have too much of a problem. But if I want to create team sites within a single site collection solution then I’ve only got two options now:

  1. Use a different url? maybe /team/…
  2. Accept that I’ve got to use different site collections for my team sites. This will cause problems with my Global Managed Navigation based solutions.

 

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2 responses to “Office 365 – SharePoint creating sites with the name ‘teams’”

  1. Micah Avatar
    Micah

    My tenant has a drop down when creating a new site collection to choose either sites or teams for the base url.

    I think this is for the new team site experience coming this year

    1. Pieter Veenstra Avatar
      Pieter Veenstra

      That will be the reason for reserving the ‘teams’ name as it is used for holding team sites.

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