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SharePoint Online Best Practices

Anonymous
2018-11-18T15:36:28+00:00

I have been playing with SharePoint Online for a few months now, trying different things and approaches. Some things work in some areas and then not in other areas. I am wondering if there is a “best practices” guide somewhere within the O365 portal or somewhere on the web. 

For instance: 

When our vendor setup our O365 environment, the default SharePoint site was created. Now I want to move our Intranet over to SharePoint Online. Would it be best to create another site, a Communication Site, under the domain.sharepoint.com main site at domain.sharepoint.com/sites OR would it be best to make the default top level SP domain.sharepoint.com the Intranet?

Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-11-19T00:21:57+00:00

    Hi Dubstir,

    Here is the SharePoint Online planning guide which can help you learn more about SharePoint Online.

    *Click the left pane in the article to view each section.

    As for your question, it's suggested you build your Office 365/SharePoint Online environment based on your own needs (you can refer to your Intranet structure). But I'd like to share some personal ideas regarding "best practices".

    1. Please notice that Site collection is different from Sub site. They are under different levels.

    Normally domain.sharepoint.com/sites/site1 means it's a site collection.

    domain.sharepoint.com/site2 means it's a subsite.

    1. It's always suggested that you use the default top level site collection domain.sharepoint.com first. And use Team site for general sites.

    To avoid making the site collection complicated/miscellaneous, you can set different site collections for different use, like departments, functions, etc. For each site collection, you can create subsites to add more contents.

    1. About how to choose Communication Site or a team site, please check the following. You can choose them based on their functions.

    Create a team site in SharePoint Online

    Create a communication site in SharePoint Online

    Regards,

    Jim

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-11-21T08:47:03+00:00

    Hi Dubstir,

    You can refer to the reply about regarding the SharePoint Online queries.

    Thanks,

    Jim

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