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Steven Tolboe
Iron Contributor
Jun 30, 2017

Communication Site vs Team Site

Mark-KashmanOther than what other Office 365 tools are autogenerated (i.e. planner, onenote), I am struggling to see the difference between communication sites and team sites. It seems all the new we...
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jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Jun 26, 2018
Yes, both modern Team Sites and Communication sites are different since they are based on different site templates....can you share where you have read that is is best to use communication sites when working with Hub Sites? In regards to your question about changing existint sites into communication sites, this is not possible
Nicholas Pettijohn's avatar
Nicholas Pettijohn
Brass Contributor
Jul 18, 2018

I have Noticed:

 

1. I find that you can associate a classic SharePoint site to a hub site if you turn on the Site Pages feature in Site Features, then create a new Home page for the classic site using the Site Page layout.

 

2. By default, on a Communication site, you cannot create additional page libraries, only document libraries.

 

3. Team sites are really Outlook Group sites, with the same objects being generated as would be if you created the group from Outlook.  Group/Team sites require you to choose Private or Public, and by default it makes the entire group the site collection administrator.  Somehow, SharePoint differentiates between Owners and Members inside the group; and even thought the entire group is SCA, permissions of Owners and Members do differ somewhat.  The group also shows up in the Members group of the site, as seen in Advanced Permissions.  Advanced Permissions is hidden in Site Settings on Team sites, but you can still get there using the usual URL (/_layouts/15/user.aspx), or via the new Permissions UI.

 

Nick

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