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SharePoint Admin Questions, for SharePoint Online.
Hey Guys, Hoping you can help me out here. I am trying to better understand how the SharePoint admin center is laid out. Speaking about site collections. (apologies for the list of questions, ju...
/sites is basically just a site collection path I forget the technical term of it but your sites under it are site collections not subsites. The sites your creating in sites can be viewed in the new SharePoint admin center which you can click in top right corner this will have your active sites which are all the /sites and other modern site collections etc.
The existing root URL is just a root site collection that is listed because it’s a classic site collection as any other old school site collections might show in the old admin center.
The existing root URL is just a root site collection that is listed because it’s a classic site collection as any other old school site collections might show in the old admin center.
Is it still referred as Host Named Site Collections (HNSC)?
I agree in using the SharePoint Admin Center Preview (see Active sites link) since it displays the list of Modern site collections correctly.
- No, it's not Host Named Site Collections (HNSC)...HNSC is more for onprem and allows you to setup different URLs for a Site Collection withouth having to touch the AAM (Alternate Access Mappings)...this concept is not available in SPO. Just remember in SPO we deal with a SPO tenant and then Site Collections created in the tenant. You should work with site collections and leav (if possible) the pattern of creating subsites under a site collection
- Juan. Thanks for the clarification. I've been using HNSC for on-prem farm but wasn't clear whether terminologies carried over in SPO.
Got some more clarity for host named and path-based concepts after further research:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/administration/host-named-site-collection-architecture-and-deployment
