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Using a communication site to store and share business documents with clients
My customer needed a place in its SharePoint to store business documents to work on and eventually share with their clients. As there was no need for Teams, Planner and other group functionality I ch...
Nothing wrong with using a communication site here, you are not going to gain anything else by going another site route unless you plan on using old school classic UI which most people don't these days. Communication site can have and behaves the same as a group connected site other than security and extra web parts etc. You'll get a much cleaner experience IMO when using a Comm site. without all the extra bloat that comes with a Team Site.
Thank you for your reply. Does sharing work different in a group connected teamsite? I read that a communication site uses the SharePoint security/user groups, where group connected teamsites use AzureAD, but I don't know if this true for document sharing with external users?
- They both can use azure ad users and security groups on the SHarePoint side.
The difference is the Group connected teamsite uses Office 365 groups for it's permissions. Which is pretty much a Owner / Member role setup. They will require setting up B2B accounts etc. if using that method to add to a site.
The sharing links, etc. all work the same on either site template.