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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...
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 ? 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
- 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