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SharePoint Online: New SharePoint Site in Office 365
Hi all,
I have been provided the WSP file to create the SharePoint instance for the policy management in SharePoint Online environment. There is no top level site currently exist for this purpose. Please help with your recommendation to determine the below:
1. Should I create a site collection for above purpose or create a Sub Site within new top level site? Any suggestion as per different organisations what would be example for the top level site and the Sub Site as policy management?
2. If I decide to create the top level site what are the factors should I consider to determine the Team site template versus communicate site template?
3. What would be pros and cons if I decide to create the site collection using the WSP template?
Many thanks for your help.
4 Replies
- 1. The recommendation Today is to create top site levels, but it's absolutely up to you to create a subsite
2. Both are modern SPO templates. A modern SPO Site is connected to an Office 365 Group so you will have a Planner Plan, an EXO mailbox for the Group, an EXO Calendar and also you could create a Team from this Group in the future. With a communication site you don't have any of these features
3. Simply don't use it. While it's possible to create a site from a template, this is not the way to do it today. You can use existing site templates and enrich them with site scripts and site designsThank you Juan for your recommendations. Yes, you are right the top level site is the way to go in today's world. I have found this great blog posted by 'Stephanie Donahue' just thought of sharing in this thread so that it will be useful for other community users.
However, regarding my third question as per my original post about the creating the site collection using the WSP template. Do you think is it worth checking with my vendor who provided the WSP to confirm with them if that is created using the Modern SPO Templates? Or you think creating a new site collection using Modern SPO WSP template is not feasible and the way forward is only to create a new site collection using either Modern Team Site or Communication and apply configuration manually at the moment?
Many thanks for your help.
- My recommendation here is to avoid WSPs in SharePoint Online, so yes, either use a modern team site or a communication site and apply your configurations later. You don't necessarily need to apply them manually, you can automate the configuraitons to be added with Site Scripts and Site Designs or with PnP
