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Jun 26, 2018

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Subsites vs sites

I am still very confused about when to create subsites and when to use sites. I have a department which consists of different teams that don't necessarily work together. In my main site I would like...

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Johanson Sandrasagra
Jun 26, 2018
Take a look at SharePoint Hub Sites which allows you to connect multiple sites together (similar to the subsite concept). SharePoint Hub Sites give you a shared navigation, search across the hub and web parts to support rollup of news, associated sites and highlighted content

If you're a global or SharePoint admin in Office 365, you can convert any existing site (communication or team site) to a hub site using Microsoft PowerShell. Create a hub site in SharePoint Online

When a MS Team is created it creates a site collection (team site) which can them be connected to the hub sites Associate a SharePoint site with a hub site

You can also use a site design to automate the joining of a newly created site to an existing hub site by using the joinHub site script action. For info about how to create the site script and site design, see SharePoint site design and site script overview.

Hope this helps

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Jun 27, 2018

Thanks for all your replies.

Creating one SharePoint/Team with Channels per subteam could be an option. I am just worried that it is not flexible. Our organisation changes a lot and one or more of the subteams may be moved to another department - or we could get a new subteam. Is it easy to move a channel to another Team/SharePoint?

If I create channel per subteam everybody can I restrict the channels so that only members of the specific channel gets notifications from their own channel?

Dean_Gross

Silver Contributor

Jun 27, 2018

Given that your org changes a lot, I would recommend creating a Teams structure that is not based on the org structure, this is an age old problem with SharePoint (and many other systems). Think about how people need to work together, not who they work for. Do some experiments with different teams to see what they like.

Don't try to come up with a perfect Teams structure that will apply to everything, be prepared for new functionality showing up in Teams. This can be done by reviewing the suggestions in User Voice .

It is NOT easy to move channels at this time but I think that MS may be working on this, see https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16939708-move-channels-into-other-teams

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