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SharePoint sites vs. Site Collections - CONFUSED!
I am with you! How I understand it though, if you create a site collection via the admin center, you are creating a whole new site collection, where sites can be created. When you go to the Office 365 home page (https://www.office.com/), and create a site, you are creating a site within the existing site collection created by the admin. However, like I stated before, I am a little shaky myself. Someone just created a new teamsite for one of our departments, and it was created under the original root collection.
Hopefully, I made some sense.
Paul
Hello Paul,
Correct, creating sites via the SP Admin centre, creates a Site Collection, and nothing more. This site collection can be viewed via the SP Admin centre.
In my recent experiences, If you create a 'Team Site' via the Sharepoint 'home area' within Office.com, it actually creates a Site as part of a 365 Group, provisioning everything for the group, including a Team Site. However, this Team Site does not appear within the SP Admin centre, and to configure deep-rooted settings, you will need to you Powershell.
If you want to use SP Team Sites, and Team Sites only, create them in the SP Admin Centre.
I hope this helps
Those new group enabled team sites will show up in the new SP Admin center that is currently rolling out.
Just to clarify, the SP sites are not "part of the group", they are just connected to it (but don't delete the group because that will delete the site also). Depending on how a new Office Group is created, there may be many other apps connected to it, in this case, it is a SPO Site.
Thanks so much, Sam. Essentially, the individual is creating the Fire and Rescue Team site within our County's organization. There are many different departments--Police, Department of Information Technology, etc. We do have a County Team site (created by default), Do you think it prudent to have folks just go the SharePoint homepage and create their own department sites? I don't know if creating entire new site collections via the Admin center for each new department is the way I want to go. What say you?
It sounds like each of those department is a group of people that will be working together. I would recommend letting them create separate group enabled sites, you will soon be able to create Hub sites that connect them together.
By creating separate group enabled team sites, you will have Office/Azure AD Groups of people that can be reused consistently across many other applications besides sharepoint (Teams, Stream and PowerBI specifically)
