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As a SharePoint Administrator and above in Microsoft 365, you can let your users create and manage their own SharePoint sites. You can decide what kind of sites they can create and where they can create them. By default, users can create communication sites and Microsoft 365 group-connected team sites.
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Disabling site creation for users doesn't remove their ability to create Microsoft 365 groups or resources, such as Microsoft Teams, that rely on a group. When a Microsoft 365 group is created, a SharePoint site is also created. To restrict creation of Microsoft 365 groups and the resources that rely on groups, see Manage who can create Microsoft 365 Groups.
Manage site creation in the new SharePoint admin center
Go to Settings in the SharePoint admin center, and sign in with an account that has admin permissions for your organization.
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If you have Office 365 operated by 21Vianet (China), sign in to the Microsoft 365 admin center, go to the SharePoint admin center, and then open the Settings page.
Select Site creation. The Site creation page appears:
To allow users to create sites, select Allow under Control site creation from tools. This setting controls whether users can create sites from SharePoint, OneDrive, the PnP PowerShell cmdlet, and the REST API. This setting doesn't affect whether users can create teams or Microsoft 365 groups and their connected sites.
To prevent users from creating a site with SharePoint built-in experience, do one of the following:
Add the destination URL by selecting Redirect users to an organization approved request page to your organization custom site provisioning flow
Select Turn off the built-in SharePoint experience under Choose the SharePoint site creation experience.
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Even if you clear these checkboxes, users might be able to create Microsoft 365 groups from other places in Microsoft 365. Each group always comes with a team site. Learn how to manage who can create Microsoft 365 groups.
Under /sites or /teams, select to create Microsoft 365 group-connected team sites, and then select the default time zone and storage limit for new sites.
Select Save.
Manage detailed site and subsite creation settings in the classic SharePoint admin center
Admins in the SharePoint admin center can choose to turn on or off subsite creation across sites or enable it for classic sites only. When you turn off subsite creation, the subsite option doesn't appear in the command bar, including in classic sites. Users also can't create new subsites directly through a URL or API.
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For information about classifying Microsoft 365 groups, see Manage Microsoft 365 Groups with PowerShell.
In the left pane of the new SharePoint admin center, select Settings. At the bottom of the page, select classic settings page.
Under Site Creation, select to show or hide the Create site command.
If you choose Disable subsite creation for all sites, it hides the subsite creation command (including classic) and prevents users from creating new subsites through a URL or API.
If you choose Enable subsite creation for classic sites only, users can create new subsites for classic sites.
If you choose Enable subsite creation for all sites, users can create new subsites from any SharePoint site.
Select OK when you're done.
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Creating a subsite in OneDrive isn't supported. Trying results in the following error: New subsites aren't available in this site. Create a new site instead.
Tip
Instead of using subsites, we recommend using hub sites. SharePoint hub sites allow you to group similar articles and content together using modern architecture design. Plan to create hub sites.