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Migration and thoughts on Flattening the architecture
I am migrating a bunch of classic Team sub-sites ( basically a team site for each project) from 2010 to O365. Should I leave them as sub sites under a "Projects" Site collection or make them site collections per the flat architecture model? I've got pros and con's for both. Thoughts?
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Promote them, we have done this for several clients and have not regretted doing the extra work.
Pros outweigh the cons by far in my book.
Don't carry the technical debt forward if at all possible, be brave, bite the bullet and do your client a favor, they will be happier this summer when they are able to take advantage of all of the new stuff that makes their lives easier.
Be sure to activate Group Classification so that you can classify the sites and then easily close them down when the projects are done.
SharePointMaven has an excellent blog post in favor of a flat architecture that is worth reading.
If I knew the sites were going to be used for the foreseeable future I would put in the work and split / flatten the sites. If there are sites that will not be used I would migrate as is and split / flatten them as time or opportunity allows.
I hope this helps.
Norm
Pretty much what I was going thinking of doing. I was definitely going to create the new projects being site collections..
