Forum Discussion
Solved
Difference between two SharePoint Sites
I am struggling to understand the difference between the two different versions of “team sites” in SharePoint.
I understand that a communications site has “https://froneri365.sharepoint.com/sites/” prefix. Furthermore, my understanding was that the team site had the prefix “https://froneri365.sharepoint.com/teams/”
That is if I create communications site from the SharePoint admin panel, I get /sites/ prefix, if I create 365group first, and then create a team using that group, I get a SharePoint site with /teams/ prefix.
However now when I got my hands on and export of SharePoint sites from our tenant, and I have some sites that have /sites/ prefix, but have “Team site” as a Template attribute, while others have “Communication site” as an attribute.
What is the difference between these two “/sites/” sites? My main concern is permission management, and converting the sites to hubs.
And what is the difference between the two sites with "Team site" template attribute but with different prefixes, one with /teams/ prefix and the other with /sites/ prefix
Mind you I have no access to the SharePoint admin portal, so I cannot create SharePoint sites via the admin portal, only via Office365 group.
Thank you
Hello PetersDave
this are different site templates, team site (groups connected) will be used for M365 Goups or Microsoft Teams, a team site (not groups connected) is a SharePoint site only, without any other M365 services like exchange, entra id or planner. The url /sites/ or /teams/ is only an aid for better visualization.
Here are an article about this topic: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/community/team-site-or-communication-site?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004845
I have updated the article with more informations about your topic, i'm sure, it will be released soon.
Best, Dave
3 Replies
Hello PetersDave
this are different site templates, team site (groups connected) will be used for M365 Goups or Microsoft Teams, a team site (not groups connected) is a SharePoint site only, without any other M365 services like exchange, entra id or planner. The url /sites/ or /teams/ is only an aid for better visualization.
Here are an article about this topic: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/community/team-site-or-communication-site?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004845
I have updated the article with more informations about your topic, i'm sure, it will be released soon.
Best, Dave
Hello Dave,
Thank you for the reply, however I am still bit buffed as to the difference between creating team site from SharePoint admin portal using the team template, and creating a team site using MS Teams and associating it with existing o365 group. Is there any difference between these two teams SP sites? Or the final outcome is the same in both cases.
Looking at the article, this would correspond to Team Site - this would have the /teams/ and Team Site (not groups connected) this would have the /sites/ prefix , right?
Hey PetersDave
the finale outcome is the same, only the permission management from a Team Site (groups connected), over member and owners, and the permission management from a team site (not groups connected), over SharePoint groups, are not the same.
The prefix is "only" a prefix, it doesn't make any differences in the SharePoint site template.
Best, Dave
