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SharePoint Admin Questions, for SharePoint Online.
Hello Robert,
Welcome to SharePoint World...
If you see at the top there https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com / Is that considered my default sharepoint site? what is that for exactly?
This is the default/ root site collection under which you would create your team sites, department sites etc.,
All of the collections under sites? are those separate site collections sitting under the parent URL of /Sites/ ? I think so i just want to make sure. or are they thier own site collections? (It seems like it,
Yes, all of those sitting under / sites are separate sites collections , similarly /Hub is a separate site collection under portal, Search is a separate site collection under root.
When i create a new site using the "Create Site" button it goes under /Sites/ Is that how its supposed to be?
I assume you mean to say you are creating a new site collection . You can choose to create under / Sites (which is the top one in the drop down list) or /Teams
Also are all "Sites" considered subsites of an existing site collection?
Yes all the sites that you create under site collections are considered subsites
Hope this helps
Thuyavan
- Thanks Thuyavan! That helps a little. The confusion between sites, site collections and subsites has been difficult for me to clear up. There seems to be about 57 answers to the differences between the 3.
I just created a site under teams/ now I realize from your answer that i can create a site collection under either Teams or Sites, but is there a difference? Would communication sites be better suited to go under /teams ? etc.
Also, as a SharePoint consultant, would you tell a customer to use the default root site? in my case https://<tenantname>.sharepoint.com/ or would advise them to create site collections a new, and then start from there?
Thanks,
Robert- I just created a site under teams/ now I realize from your answer that i can create a site collection under either Teams or Sites, but is there a difference? Would communication sites be better suited to go under /teams ?
- No difference its just a logical grouping ... all teams sites under /teams all and all project sites under /sites ... based on the site collection template you can tag your sites ...
Also, as a SharePoint consultant, would you tell a customer to use the default root site? in my case https://<tenantname>.sharepoint.com/ or would advise them to create site collections a new, and then start from there?
Based on my knowledge , it doesn't matter whether you are using default root site collection or any other site collection for your sites, the default root site collection its just another site collection that's all. One thing is, its a default site collection and it has team site template. I wouldn't recommend changing into a communication sites template nor deleting and recreating the root site collection even though its possible technically
I would suggest to create all your needs under \sites so that you can maintain uniform structure across your site collections
Hope this helps!
Thanks,
Thuyavan
