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David_Elsner
Jan 09, 2020Brass Contributor
Are visitors of an O365 group site legit?
I had an Office365 consultant here and he told me that if I put visitors in a SharePoint Teamsite that is connected to an O365 group, this is a bad practice. He explained, that an O365 group (team, ...
- Jan 09, 2020Communication sites are as the name implies more about communication and information not as much collaboration. It’s not so much about the files but pages. What would be better is that you create a library with read access to everyone or more granular that is linked to both the team site and can be given to other users. Or create a comm site and link it there. Within the team site you work on your documents and put them in this library for public access
David_Elsner
Jan 09, 2020Brass Contributor
adam deltinger Okay, thats good to notice. But then its hard to me to get the concrete sense of communication sites. We have very often Teams that work together and they want to publish only some or all content as read to other people.
What about the argument of our consultants that a Team site is about collaboration, not publishing?
Jan 09, 2020
Communication sites are as the name implies more about communication and information not as much collaboration. It’s not so much about the files but pages. What would be better is that you create a library with read access to everyone or more granular that is linked to both the team site and can be given to other users. Or create a comm site and link it there. Within the team site you work on your documents and put them in this library for public access
- David_ElsnerJan 09, 2020Brass Contributor
adam deltinger And on the communication site I just put a hyperlink, referencing the public team. Did I get you right?
Good to know btw. that communication sites are more for site pages and not for files.
- Jan 09, 2020It’s often used as information pages with web parts and pictures and links which are referring to other pages or in this case libraries or files
- David_ElsnerJan 09, 2020Brass Contributor
adam deltinger okay, got you! Thanks.