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

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

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

• If we notice, correct template for communication site is – 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"

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