Office 365: How to create a SharePoint site if your new Office 365 Group doesn't have one.

Office 365: How to create a SharePoint site if your new Office 365 Group doesn't have one.

When creating a new Office 365 Group from the Exchange Admin Centre, its associated Sharepoint site wasn’t created.  This prevented me from sharing a OneDrive with a customer as the Office 365 Group OneDrives are actually based on sharepoint.
To trigger the creation of a OneDrive/Sharepoint for an Office 365 Group, you must first go to the People ‘app’, navigate to the Office 365 Group and go to the Files tab. After a small wait, you should see a message about the lack of files (do read the text on the screen, the “oops, something went wrong” error looks the same as the success message.), the sharepoint site collection has now been created.
(At the time of writing, the Sharepoint site collections list was broken)
Navigate to the Sharepoint or OneDrive apps and you may see your site, if not, try typing the address manually or use the SharePoint Online Management Shell to list all the site collections, which is a story for another day…

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