Small Tips and Tricks – PowerShell – creating communication site – resolving error – New-SPOSite : The web template SITEPUBLISHING#0 is not available for sites on this tenant

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Hi All,

Greetings for the day!!!

Today new issue and solution 🙂

Background

  • In one of scenario we need to automate the process of creating COMMUNICATION sites
  • So PowerShell is the option – New-SPOSite
  • I am testing by creating a single site collection with PowerShell
  • For communication site I thought template will be SITEPUBLISHING#0 but then got the issue with this template

Issue – Error while creating communication site with PowerShell – New-SPOSite : The web template SITEPUBLISHING#0 is not available for sites on this tenant

fig : Microsoft 365 - PowerShell - New-SPOSite - creating new communication site - error
fig : Microsoft 365 – PowerShell – New-SPOSite – creating new communication site – error

Solution

  • It seems to be template getting used is wrong one- SITEPUBLISHING#0
  • To know the available template in a tenant we have PowerShell CMDLET – Get-SPOWebTemplate

PS C:\> Get-SPOWebTemplate

output:

Name                     Title                                       LocaleId CompatibilityLevel
----                     -----                                       -------- ------------------
STS#3                    Team site (no Microsoft 365 group)              1033                 15
STS#0                    Team site (classic experience)                  1033                 15
BDR#0                    Document Center                                 1033                 15
DEV#0                    Developer Site                                  1033                 15
OFFILE#1                 Records Center                                  1033                 15
EHS#1                    Team Site - SharePoint Online configuration     1033                 15
BICenterSite#0           Business Intelligence Center                    1033                 15
SRCHCEN#0                Enterprise Search Center                        1033                 15
BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER#0 Publishing Portal                               1033                 15
ENTERWIKI#0              Enterprise Wiki                                 1033                 15
PROJECTSITE#0            Project Site                                    1033                 15
PRODUCTCATALOG#0         Product Catalog                                 1033                 15
COMMUNITY#0              Community Site                                  1033                 15
COMMUNITYPORTAL#0        Community Portal                                1033                 15
SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0     Communication site                              1033                 15
SRCHCENTERLITE#0         Basic Search Center                             1033                 15
visprus#0                Visio Process Repository                        1033                 15

fig : Microsoft 365 - PowerShell - Getting available templates in Tenant - Get-SPOWebTemplate
fig : Microsoft 365 – PowerShell – Getting available templates in Tenant – Get-SPOWebTemplate
  • If we notice, correct template for communication site is – SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0
fig : Microsoft 365 - PowerShell - Template for creating communication site - SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0
fig : Microsoft 365 – PowerShell – Template for creating communication site – SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0
  • As we are using correct template , communication site created successfully 
New-SPOSite -Url "https://knowledgejunction1.sharepoint.com/sites/sitewithpowershell" -Owner "prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com" -StorageQuota 20480 -Title "Communication site with PowerShell" -Template "SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0"

fig : Microsoft 365 - PowerShell - communication site created with New-SPOSite PowerShell CMDLET
fig : Microsoft 365 – PowerShell – communication site created with New-SPOSite PowerShell CMDLET

Thanks all for reading 🙂 HAVE a FANTASTIC LEARNING AHEAD !!!

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Prasham Sabadra

LIFE IS VERY BEAUTIFUL :) ENJOY THE WHOLE JOURNEY :) Founder of Knowledge Junction and live-beautiful-life.com, Author, Learner, Passionate Techie, avid reader. Certified Professional Workshop Facilitator / Public Speaker. Scrum Foundation Professional certificated. Motivational, Behavioral , Technical speaker. Speaks in various events including SharePoint Saturdays, Boot camps, Collages / Schools, local chapter. Can reach me for Microsoft 365, Azure, DevOps, SharePoint, Teams, Power Platform, JavaScript.

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