Well … you might think it’s simple, and in away it is, you are just click a way from creating a SharePoint site on your office 365 platform to find out later on the road, that you created the wrong share point site type.
SharePoint online is a moving target like the entire office 365 suit, it is an evolving environment/Ecosystem which keep on changing based on the user community input.
Currently there are three ways to create sharepoint sites in office 365:
The old way : A new site collection or a sub-site under your domain main site collection.
Creating a team site – Quick and light Wight predefined SharePoint site for collaboration between team members. Some will say it reminds them of Slack.
Groups – Between the two plus sharing calendars, emails, and storage space between team members.
| Method ___________________ | Pros _______________________________________ | Cons _______________________________________ |
| Teams | Quick and easy to create team collaboration site with pre defined features. | Lists and other features and apps not included. need to download client. don’t support customization
will be created under the /sites/ |
| SharePoint | Robust site collection with multiple sub-sites, supports most of the known feathers from the On-premises version. | do not support server side coding. Requires SP pros the setup correctly. needs to manage permission.
dedicated managed path domainname/sitename |
| Groups | Share Calendar and events with the group, predefined collaboration site template !,
Creates AD group automatically |
doesn’t include : versioning, views, metadata, workflow, and other features available in SharePoint online.
will be created under the /sites/ Modern page do not have a full length one columns view. only 70% of the page is used. |