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SharePoint Online - Automate Site & Group Creation with Nintex Workflow O365

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What Nintex Workflow for O365 has an action to create a site automatically in SharePoint, but it's functionality is quite limited.  You can't create groups and you can't add staff to those groups.  This tutorial shows you how to create a Nintex workflow to automate the whole process using SharePoint Web Services. Even better, we are going to create the ability to automate Site Creation across multiple Site Collections. If you're looking for a tutorial on how to do this in Nintex Workflow 2010/2013, I've written an article here:  SharePoint 2010 - Automate Site & Group Creation with Nintex Workflow 2010 Why As most SharePoint administrators are aware, it's ALWAYS a bad idea to give staff the ability to create SharePoint sites.  They will end up creating them for the wrong purposes, will not maintain them, no retention policies will get assigned to them, etc. However, you don't want to restrict your users creative freedom.  You want to govern it

SharePoint Online - Retrieve the Permission Mask Values for a Site using Powershell

This article stems from another article explaining how to [[Automate Site & Group Creation with Nintex Workflow O365]] - Coming Soon What Use Powershell to retrieve detailed data about the permission levels on a particular site Why I had previously created a Nintex Workflow to Automate Site & Group creation using nintex workflow on SharePoint 2010 .  I needed to recreate the same workflow in SharePoint Online / Nintex Workflow O365, however the SharePoint 2010 script for retrieving Permission Mask values did not work. How Using Powershell 3.0 or later, and SharePoint Online Powershell Module.  Open up the SharePoint Online Powershell Module and paste the following code (after updating the variables at the top for your site and admin details): # SharePoint Online - Retrieve the Permission Mask Values for a Site using Powershell # Specifies variable $AdminURI = "https://company-admin.sharepoint.com" $RootSiteCollection="https://company.sharepoint.co