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Managed Paths in SharePoint Online
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.
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.
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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.
Sure, I can understand the need here (and previously used it a lot for SP on premise), but as already said, I don't see it reasonable to have this new feature in SPO in the next months. The cloud having its limitation, we can't really have HNSC too :-)
Moreover, using this kind of classification directly in the Url may point to misunderstanding too. We all know that users may change the security, break some rules/guidelines/governance and then location of your site wont really match its current configuration/usage.
If you really need to have such separation, you can still prefix all your site collections' Url with anything you want, like: int- (for intranet), per- (for personal), etc.
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.
