Forum Discussion
Default Site Collection or new Site Collection for Intranet?
(1) I agree you should not use the default site collection as your Intranet. Instead, crate a new Site Collection for that and think carefully on the Information Architecture you want to put in place....the approach I'm following Today is to crate a Site Collection for each Department that is part of a Global Intranet
(2) You cannot change the behavior of the SharePoint Tile in the launcher what means you cannot modify the Url it points...what you could do is just add a custom Tile for your Intranet
(3) You cannot basically change anything in the SharePoint Online landing page what means the default site collection is going to be visible to users
Hi and thanks for your reply.
I did manage to find the original article which discussed not using the Default Site Collection and thought it would be useful to share: http://www.vrdmn.com/2015/08/avoid-customizing-sharepoint-online.html
I've since realised that the SharePoint tile doesn't point to the root URL of the site so that shouldn't be a problem. I do like the suggestion of adding a new tile for the Intranet though. I'll look at removing permissions from the Default Site Collection to see what that results in for the user.
One of the next tasks will be to review the site collection requirements. I did find a useful article which looked at the different structures and I'm considering a single Site Collection as outlined here: https://sharepointmaven.com/structure-sites-sharepoint-intranet/
Regards.