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Determining the url of the SharePoint sites created behind Teams teams
When a Teams Team is created in effect a 365 Group is created and a host of other things, one of which is an associated SharePoint site, or as I call it a "SharePoint site behind".
I want to know how the location/url of this 'SharePoint site behind' is set.
I have found in the SharePoint Admin Center under Settings the Site Creation :-
Am I on the the right lines?
Do I correctly interpret this 'Create teams sites under' as saying there are only two locations where the SharePoint sites behind teams i.e. Microsoft 365 group-connected team sites, can be created?
In our tenant this setting is currently set to 'sites' . If it is changed to 'teams' what else will it have an impact on other than the location of the sites which sit behind/are associated with Teams teams?
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- Hi MaryHill
The url will be created as
https://[TenantName].sharepoint.com/sites/[TeamNameWithoutSpaces]
So for example if I create My Team the URL will be
https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/MyTeam
More about site creation can be seen here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/manage-site-creation
AFAIK no difference beteen /sites/ and /teams/ technically just an alternative location and naming convention. See here too
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/69142/difference-between-teams-sites-url-paths-when-creating-new-site-collection
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
