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Armelle Loghmanian
Copper Contributor
Jan 06, 2018
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Sharepoint online permissions inheritance subsites

Hi, I do have a collection A with 3 groups (Read/contribute/owners ) on the collection. I had create 3 subsites Inside the collection let's call them SubsiteA, SubsiteB and Subsite C. The subsi...
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  • Dean_Gross's avatar
    Dean_Gross
    Jan 07, 2018

    Now that you understand how inheritance works, you may want to reconsider your decision to create subsites in the site collection. Many of the new features in SPO, i.e, Office 365 Groups and the soon to be released Hub sites will work best with separate site collections that do not have any subsites. 

     

    There are many good reasons to have subsites, but there are also many benefits to having separate site collections. It can be confusing to have a new "site collection" that only has one site (and is not really a collection of anything), but that is just the nature of sharepoint architecture. 

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Dean_Gross
Silver Contributor
Jan 07, 2018

Now that you understand how inheritance works, you may want to reconsider your decision to create subsites in the site collection. Many of the new features in SPO, i.e, Office 365 Groups and the soon to be released Hub sites will work best with separate site collections that do not have any subsites. 

 

There are many good reasons to have subsites, but there are also many benefits to having separate site collections. It can be confusing to have a new "site collection" that only has one site (and is not really a collection of anything), but that is just the nature of sharepoint architecture. 

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Anonymous
Jan 08, 2018

I fully agree with Dean as well.