How do I create a Teams site that corresponds to the Workspace I created?

[joglidden2]

It appears that this used to happen automatically, a corresponding Teams site would be created when I created a Workspace in the Service. But I just created a new Workspace, and no corresponding Teams site appeared (or at least I can't find it). 

Is there a way I can manually create a Teams site that corresponds to the Workspace I just created? Any advice would be appreciated. 

[joglidden2]

Update: I opened a report in the Service, and then clicked 'Share to Teams', hoping that would create my Teams site for me. No luck. I just get a popup window with a "loading indicator" that spins forever and does nothing until I halt it by closing the popup. I believe that it can't find anything to do, because there is no corresponding Teams site. Thus, back to the original question:

How do I create a corresponding Teams site?

[GilbertQ]

Hi there

This no longer functions in this way.

What you would do is to create a new teams channel. Then in the teams channel you can create a Power BI App which you can map through to the workspace.

[joglidden2]

@GilbertQ , thanks for the advice. I'll try it and get back to you. Question: if I do as you say, when I click 'Share to Teams' in a report, will it actually do that? I guess there's only one way to find out. 

[GilbertQ]

Hi there

What I found is I clicked on Share to Teams and it opened up which team or person I wanted to share the report with.

This will work by sharing the Report. If you want to embed the report then use the App in Teams

Here are more details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-embed-report-microsoft-teams

[joglidden2]

@GilbertQ , Ok, thanks for the suggestion. No that doesn't work. It just spins, and times out. Pretty sure it's looking for a corresponding Teams environment, and since none exists, it just loops. 

[joglidden2 · Accepted solution]

@GilbertQ, I don't mean to sound rude, but in pursuing your suggestion, I came across what the actual solution is: 

First create the "Teams team" (MS, you're such marketing boneheads), which thereby creates a PBI Workspace. Then you have a connected PBI workspace to work on.

So, now I'm in the process of deleting the original workspace I created and populating the new one that was created when I created the Teams team. Fortunately I didn't get too far into this, so it isn't too much work. 

[GilbertQ]

Hi there

Oh yes I forgot if the tenant setting has not been set to stop the creating of classic app workspaces when creating a MS Team it will create a Power BI App Workspace.

[joglidden2]

@GilbertQ, would that be an Office365 admin tenant setting? I wouldn't want it switched off, in lieu of specific knowledge on how to create a corresponding Team/team-PBI/Workspace, but I'm also not sure that an org as large as mine should be spinning up a workspace for every Team/team instance that's created. This is definitely something Microsoft should work on improving. 

Thanks for all your excellent feedback and advice.

[GilbertQ]

What you can do is disable this and only let certain users be able to do this

here are more details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-portal#block-classic-workspace-creatio...