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john john
Oct 02, 2019Steel Contributor
Modern Team site or Modern communication site for our HR site
We have a new sharepoint online tenant. and inside the built-in root site collection (which is of type classic team site), we added some document libraries and news web parts. Now we want to create ...
Rob Ellis
Oct 02, 2019Bronze Contributor
It sounds like you would be best using a Communication site for HR in this case (although they are likely to also need a group connected (modern) Team site for their internal collaboration (and that could be connected to Microsoft Teams as well).
In terms of your root site collection, you would be able to create a Communication site at another URL (perhaps /sites/Intranet for example) - then use the new Site Swap command, to replace that classic root site with your Intranet Communication site.
(Site Swap will move your classic site to a definable URL for archive purposes - so no data would be lost)
In terms of your root site collection, you would be able to create a Communication site at another URL (perhaps /sites/Intranet for example) - then use the new Site Swap command, to replace that classic root site with your Intranet Communication site.
(Site Swap will move your classic site to a definable URL for archive purposes - so no data would be lost)