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Iron Contributor

Oct 06, 2018

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. P...

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Badal Ratra

Iron Contributor

Oct 06, 2018

Thank 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.

https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/info.paitgroup.com/blog/modernizing-your-approach-to-site-architecture-in-sharepoint-and-office-365%3fhs_amp=true

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.

jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

Oct 07, 2018

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

Badal Ratra
Iron Contributor
Oct 07, 2018
Thanks Juan for your recommendations. Much appreciated mate. Could you please help me to clarify the following points as it will help me give justification to business users:

1. What are the implications if we create the Site collection from WSP in SharePoint Online? How it could impact to users now or in future?
2. What are the implications if we create Sub Site from the WSP in the new site collection modern team site or communication site? How it could impact to users now or in future?

Many thanks for your help on this.