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Is the SharePoint created in MS Teams replacing the Classic Office 365 SharePoint Teams site?
Hi All,
I am confused with what SharePoint site I should recommended for our company. What is the difference with the SharePoint site generated by Microsoft Teams (https://teams.microsoft.com/)...
"What I do not want to happen is 5 years down the line finding out I should have stored the documents in Groups instead of Office 365 SharePoint Site Collection. "
You can attach existing sites to group sites soon, if there was some need for that using the "Groupify" method so that's really not an issue because you'll be able to change that if you need to later.
Sites have been group connected for awhile by default now when creating them from SharePoint home. See https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/UPDATE-Create-Office-365-Groups-with-team-sites-from-SharePoint/td-p/48277
The Teams SharePoint sites are no different than those group connected sites other than they have a Team attached to them and the Team uses the Default "Documents" library to store it's files.
Matt Wade did an awesome infographic detailing what gets created with a Group and when etc. Anytime you create something that is group connected you get a certain set of apps that are integrated with it. I recommend reading over it as it's fairly accurate still today: http://icansharepoint.com/everyday-guide-office-365-groups/
As for classic sites and or communications sites, they are stand alone SharePoint sites, not tied to any Office 365 group. They have their own permissions as SharePoint always has had. The classic SharePoint sites however can now have their default views for lists and libraries use the Modern UI, but this can be disabled through site admin settings or the list settings for those individual lists as well.
The Teams SharePoint sites are no different than those group connected sites other than they have a Team attached to them and the Team uses the Default "Documents" library to store it's files.
Matt Wade did an awesome infographic detailing what gets created with a Group and when etc. Anytime you create something that is group connected you get a certain set of apps that are integrated with it. I recommend reading over it as it's fairly accurate still today: http://icansharepoint.com/everyday-guide-office-365-groups/
As for classic sites and or communications sites, they are stand alone SharePoint sites, not tied to any Office 365 group. They have their own permissions as SharePoint always has had. The classic SharePoint sites however can now have their default views for lists and libraries use the Modern UI, but this can be disabled through site admin settings or the list settings for those individual lists as well.