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SharePoint Site Collection in SPOnline
Thanks for a quick reply. Yes we will be using ShareGate for the migration.
But just wanted to know if there is any best practices or recommendation from Microsoft for site collections in SPOnline and will so many subsites in one site collection have any performance impact
I think it really depends. In general, I would think the strategic direction would be not have many sub sites and to have them be Site Collections. You can then leverage Hub sites to associated common sites (the old sub sites). This will allow for a lot more flexibility as the business structure may change and re organizations happen, etc.
Do these sub sites all inherit the same permissions as the (top level Site Collection) parent?
Do you roll out content from sub sites to parent (top level Site Collection)?
What drove the decision to make them all sub sites in the beginning?
There may be a valid reason to still maintain sub sites, but I think in general MS is making the recommendation to only do sub sites as the exception and to go forward with Site Collections and hub sites.
For the record, I am old SharePoint dude, and it toke me a while to get my head around this new approach, but I am embracing it now and I am seeing the real long term benefit to there new approach.
This will allow me to spend more of time focusing on the more complex business process and solutions using SharePoint and other O365 tools, and not spending the majority of my time changing and moving content.
- Hi Duane,
Thanks for your detailed reply. I will have a look at the Hub sites.
To answer your questions, the subsites have unique permissions and do not inherit the permission of site collection.
I am not sure what drove decision to make them all subsites as these sites have been existing for past few years even before I joined the organisation - Definitively Today's recommended pattern in SPO is the "Flat Structure" what means everything is just a Site Collection. What I would recommend before starting to plan your migration is to think about what should be the information architecture you want to have in SPO, if current architecture is fine to you and your users and so on...in other words, think if you need to re-design your architecture and take a look at the recommended pattern and what modern sites and Hub sites can offer you
- Hi Juan,
Thanks for your reply. I will have a look at hub sites. Thanks for pointing it out.
