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Iron Contributor

Jul 28, 2017

SharePoint sites vs. Site Collections - CONFUSED!

So, SharePoint sites vs. Site Collections has completely baffled me despite reading endless articles and watching many videos! As a very advanced end user, with very little admin. experience, I've r...

Brass Contributor

Mar 12, 2018

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

Dean_Gross

Silver Contributor

Mar 12, 2018

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.