Forum Discussion
Communication Site vs Team Site
Mark-KashmanOther than what other Office 365 tools are autogenerated (i.e. planner, onenote), I am struggling to see the difference between communication sites and team sites. It seems all the new we...
This is not all correct as of mid June 2019.
1) You can allow guest/external access to a comm's site via the SharePoint admin center.
2) While the quicklaunch is present in a modern SharePoint teams site, the page content will stretch to be full width like a Comm's site if the quicklaunch is emptied.
3) Yes you can not make classic style pages in a Comm's site
4) Yes there is no Planner plan linked as there is no 365 Group associated with a Comm's site
What I would like to know is if Microsoft intends to allow a 365 Group or (purple) Team to be associated with a Communications site.
The reason for this is to use the Comm's site's navigation and theme settings inside a Teams tab. This would enable a company to use Outlook and Teams exclusively, cutting down on jumps/jolts in interface for the end users.
1) You can allow guest/external access to a comm's site via the SharePoint admin center.
2) While the quicklaunch is present in a modern SharePoint teams site, the page content will stretch to be full width like a Comm's site if the quicklaunch is emptied.
3) Yes you can not make classic style pages in a Comm's site
4) Yes there is no Planner plan linked as there is no 365 Group associated with a Comm's site
What I would like to know is if Microsoft intends to allow a 365 Group or (purple) Team to be associated with a Communications site.
The reason for this is to use the Comm's site's navigation and theme settings inside a Teams tab. This would enable a company to use Outlook and Teams exclusively, cutting down on jumps/jolts in interface for the end users.
Peter Vincent #2 is not entirely correct. Yes if you remove the quick launch the page will stretch to the left but the main content area of a modern page in a team site is limited in width and will not fully stretch to the right like a page in a communications site would.
Peter Vincent wrote:
2) While the quicklaunch is present in a modern SharePoint teams site, the page content will stretch to be full width like a Comm's site if the quicklaunch is emptied.