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Robert Bollinger
Dec 12, 2018Iron Contributor
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...
Fred Y
Dec 12, 2018Iron Contributor
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.
Dec 12, 2018
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
- Fred YDec 13, 2018Iron ContributorJuan. 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