Looking for some insight on whether or not we will be able to add our Managed Paths in SharePoint Online? Unless I am missing something. Anyone?

Short answer. Currently you can't do it. You can only use the available "sites" and "teams" Managed Paths under SharePoint Online.

Given MPs are Web Application-wide (all tenants on your farm would be impacted) and MPs impact performance, it's doubtful we'll see something like this ever in a multi-tenant scenario without some significant rearchitecture to SharePoint.

The fact that Groups with Modern Team sites are always created under /sites - has removed any advantage previously offered by the loose classification of /teams or /sites as a choice for your site collections

Hi, yes I was having this same issue myself, it's 2018 now, does anyone know if this issue has been resolved? I was spending ages online looking at the Admin Centers and thinking they look nothing like mine.

Juan is right i know there was some discussion to change it don't know the status maybe it is on Uservoice

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Lamiaa AbdelAal
Microsoft
May 23, 2021
RobJBow Create managed Paths in SharePoint ONLINE – SharePoint Experiences in Office365 and/or SharePoint Server (uservoice.com)
Jason Hunt
Copper Contributor
Aug 01, 2018
Hi, yes I was having this same issue myself, it's 2018 now, does anyone know if this issue has been resolved? I was spending ages online looking at the Admin Centers and thinking they look nothing like mine.
- Anonymous
  Apr 02, 2019
  Jason Hunt I don't think it will be available in the near future. As Trevor said, Managed Path are related to Web Application and your tenant is sharing his Web Application with lots of other tenants.
  - Fred Bentler
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 25, 2019
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    Technically that makes sense, but logically it does not to me. I wish we could re-map our paths so they represent the security characteristics of our sites. For example, something like:
    /intranet/ (internal publishing sites with read-only for all & edit for assigned staff)
    /personal/ (self-service sites such as Microsoft Teams, Planner sites etc)
    /extranet/ (for internal/external authenticated collaboration)
    /teams/ (for internal, organizational collaboration sites)
    /sensitive/ (CJIS, HIPAA, legal docs, budget)
    /anonymous/ (for publishing)
    Should be made easy to provide clarity.
- Unnie
  Iron Contributor
  Mar 10, 2019
  Adding new Managed paths are still not available in SPO. But there is now by default option to create sites under "/sites/" or under "/teams/". This will help to solve the common scenario of seperating out team sites from the rest. In SPO admin site there is option to select the default path to be used for while creating new team sites.
Ian Moran
Iron Contributor
Nov 25, 2016
The fact that Groups with Modern Team sites are always created under /sites - has removed any advantage previously offered by the loose classification of /teams or /sites as a choice for your site collections
- Ofer-Gal
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 08, 2019
  Ian Moran
  You can set the default Managed Path in the admin center.
  But you can only choose /Team/ or /Sites/
  
  We should pest MS to allow us more flexibility with this 🙂
Anonymous
Nov 22, 2016
Juan is right i know there was some discussion to change it don't know the status maybe it is on Uservoice
Trevor Seward
MVP
Nov 22, 2016
Given MPs are Web Application-wide (all tenants on your farm would be impacted) and MPs impact performance, it's doubtful we'll see something like this ever in a multi-tenant scenario without some significant rearchitecture to SharePoint.
Tiago Costa
MVP
Nov 21, 2016
Short answer. Currently you can't do it. You can only use the available "sites" and "teams" Managed Paths under SharePoint Online.

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