Add new subfolder to URL -- companydomain.sharepoint.com/newsubfolder/

[Brandon McGinnis]

I apologize in advance if this has been asked but I couldn't find anything via search that answered what I was looking for.

I am trying to create a new site collection under our SharePoint Online tenant, and can't add a new subfolder. It only allows me to create a site collection in one of the following subfolders.

https://companydomain.sharepoint.com/sites/

https://companydomain.sharepoint.com/teams/

I was hoping to create these --

https://companydomain.sharepoint.com/external/

https://companydomain.sharepoint.com/internal/

Is that possible in SharePoint Online?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hello @Brandon McGinnis 

The managed paths in SPO only allow for /sites and /teams. There is a user voice request for creating new paths if you are interested.

I hope that helps.

Norm

[#3]

Hopefully we can get MS to add this!

Is there a way to do something like /sites/external/  and   /sites/internal/?

[#4]

It's not clear to me Microsoft will provide this feature because it's a web application level feature, something that cannot be modified in SPO

[#5]

Not modifying them, basically just adding a subfolder to /sites/ or /teams/

[#6]

We adopted an Ext- prefix on all of our external sites and use /sites for communications sites and /teams for team sites. It doesn't mean much to our end users but it does allow us to better organize the site collections.

[#7]

That was our thought process as well. We were looking (and still are) for a little better way to organize these sites. I also wasn't sure if there was any functionality that could be turned on at the Managed Path level. 

Even if we could get another subfolder after /Teams or /Sites that would be awesome.

[#8]

@Brandon McGinnis Have you considered using site classifications? We use them to classify our sites by security and data sensitivity. This includes our external sites.

"The goal of site classification is to allow managing clusters of sites based on their classification from a governance and compliance perspective, as well as to automate governance processes based on site classification."

[#9]

I hadn't seen that before just now. I appreciate the insight!

Is there any added functionality? Reading through that doc doesn't really say one way or the other. 

[#10]

No added functionality that I am aware of. The label links to a URL of your choice. We have it linked back to a governance page outlining what the site labels mean.