Determining the url of the SharePoint sites created behind Teams teams

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When a Teams Team is created in effect a 365 Group is created and a host of other things, one of which is an associated SharePoint site, or as I call it a "SharePoint site behind".

I want to know how the location/url of this 'SharePoint site behind' is set.

I have found in the SharePoint Admin Center under Settings the Site Creation :- 

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Am I on the the right lines?

Do I correctly interpret this 'Create teams sites under' as saying there are only two locations where the SharePoint sites behind teams i.e. Microsoft 365 group-connected team sites, can be created?

 

In our tenant this setting is currently set to 'sites' .  If it is changed to 'teams' what else will it have an impact on other than the location of the sites which sit behind/are associated with Teams teams?

 

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Hi @MaryHill

The url will be created as

https://[TenantName].sharepoint.com/sites/[TeamNameWithoutSpaces]

So for example if I create My Team the URL will be

https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/MyTeam

More about site creation can be seen here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/manage-site-creation

AFAIK no difference beteen /sites/ and /teams/ technically just an alternative location and naming convention. See here too

https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/69142/difference-between-teams-sites-url-paths-when-c...

Hope that answers your question

Best, Chris