A site collection is used to provide a grouping of sharepoint

So, SharePoint sites vs. Site Collections has completely baffled me despite reading endless articles and watching many videos! As a very advanced end user, with very little admin. experience, I've recently been given the taskof sorting out the existing O365 SharePoint sites / hierarchy in my new company *HURRAH*. However, I'm utterly confused! Here's what I know: • All sites / sub-sites to date appear to have been setup in a single site collection (https://.sharepoint.com/) - I've checked this via SharePoint Admin Centre and SiteManager. • All sites setup to previously appear to be'old-style' team sites with 10 or so directly under the root ( https://.sharepoint.com//). There are then various levels of sub-site beneath these 10. • When I go to the Office 365 home page ( Site' button it unexpectedly appears to create a new Site Collection underhttps://.sharepoint.com/ sites//. • If I go to the SharePoint Admin Centre and create a new site collection, it creates it underhttps://.sharepoint.com/ sites//. So, my questions are: • When Igo to O365 > SharePoint > '+ Create Site', is it creating a SharePoint Site Collection, just a Site or something else entirely (e.g. Site Collection with all the other new Groups functionality thrown in). • If I'd like to create 3 'buckets' into which all new and existing content could be put, what should I be using (Site collections, Sites, Groups, something else ...)? The buckets I'd like are: • Operations (for internal employee use only; with ...

Introduction The SharePoint Online site collection administrator is responsible for managing the SharePoint Online site collection. This includes creating and managing sites, configuring site settings, managing user access, etc. When creating a site collection, a Global Administrator or SharePoint Online Administrator specifies the primary site collection administrator for the site. Learn the basics of managing site collection administrators in SharePoint Online with PowerShell, Site settings, and the SharePoint Admin Center with this easy-to-follow guide! Table of contents • • • • • What is SharePoint Online Site Collection Administrator? A SharePoint Online site collection administrator is a user who has been given administrative permissions to manage a SharePoint site collection. As a site collection administrator, you have full control over the site collection and the ability to manage all aspects of the site collection, including the look and feel, permissions, and content. The site collection administrator can perform all tasks, including create, delete, and manage subsites within the site collection, configuring site settings, setting permissions on sites and content, monitoring usage statistics, configuring search settings, and troubleshooting any issues that arise with the SharePoint Online sites. How to add a site collection administrator in SharePoint Online? To add a site collection administrator in SharePoint Online, you must be an existing site collection Adm...

The permissions you have on a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site determine whether you can access the site and what you can do with the content on it. You can have different permissions for different sites and subsites. You can even have different permissions for different content on the same site. The content and the menu options that you see on a site vary according to the permissions that are assigned to you. A site owner usually grants you permissions to a site by adding you to a SharePoint group, such as Visitors. The group has a permission level that you receive by being a member of the group. What permission level do I have on a site? You can have the following experiences when you access a SharePoint site according to your permission level. Note: The following assumes the default SharePoint groups and permission levels for a site. Your experience may vary according to how the site owner assigned permissions on your site. You have the Read permission level If you can view the site but not make changes to the site or to the content on it, you belong to the Visitors group, which has the Read permission level. For example, if you can view a site but cannot edit a document on the site, you have the Read permission level. You have the Contribute permission level If you can view the site and change the content on the site, but not make changes to the site, you belong to Members group which has the Contribute permission level. You have the Full Control permission...

Microsoft SharePoint lets you enable and disable site collection features that determine everything from the use of workflows to the online help collection that should be available to users. Most site collection features are turned off by default, but you can easily change that. To enable or disable a site collection feature • On modern communication sites, select Site contents in the top menu bar and then click Site settings. On a modern team site, select Site contents in the left pane, and then click Site settings in the top navigation bar. On some sites, click Settings and then click Site Settings. If you don't see Site settings, click Site information and then click View all site settings. • On the Site settings page, click Site collection features under the Site Collection Administration heading. Note: A site can be significantly modified in appearance and navigation. If this option isn't available in Site Settings, contact your administrator. • Do one of the following on each site collection feature you want to enable or disable: • Click Activate to enable the site collection feature. • Click Deactivate to disable the site collection feature. Some site collection features only work when an application or service is installed or enabled. The table below lists those features that have feature or service dependencies. Feature name Description Related feature or service Disposition Approval Workflow Manages document expiration and retention by allowing users to decide wh...

New-PnPSite SYNOPSIS Creates a communication site, Microsoft 365 group-connected team site or Modern team site not connected to M365 group. SYNTAX TeamSite New-PnPSite -Type TeamSite -Title -Alias [-Description ] [-Classification ] [-IsPublic] [-Lcid ] [-Owners ] [-PreferredDataLocation ] [-SensitivityLabel ] [-HubSiteId ] [-SiteAlias ] [-TimeZone ] [-Wait] [-Connection ] CommunicationSite New-PnPSite -Type CommunicationSite -Title -Url [-HubSiteId ] [-Classification ] [-SiteDesign ] [-SiteDesignId ] [-Lcid ] [-Owner ] [-PreferredDataLocation ] [-SensitivityLabel ] [-TimeZone ] TeamSiteWithoutMicrosoft365Group New-PnPSite -Type TeamSiteWithoutMicrosoft365Group -Title -Url [-HubSiteId ] [-Classification ] [-SiteDesignId ] [-Lcid ] [-Owner ] [-PreferredDataLocation ] [-SensitivityLabel ] [-TimeZone ] DESCRIPTION The New-PnPSite cmdlet creates a new site collection for the current tenant. Currently only 'modern' sites like Communication Site , Modern Microsoft 365 group-connected team sites and Modern Team sites not connected to M365 groups are supported. If you want to create a classic site, use New-PnPTenantSite. Note that the -Type parameter is mandatory to be used to indicate which type of site you would like to create. Based on the type of site you specify, you will be able to provide the additional arguments that are valid for that site type, so it is recommended to provide this as the first argument. EXAMPLES EXAMPLE 1 New-PnPSite -Type CommunicationSite -Title C...

The Purpose of SharePoint Permissions SharePoint permissions control the access that employees, partners, third-party suppliers and others have to your SharePoint content. You can choose who can read specific information and who cannot. SharePoint permissions extend not only to display data in lists and document libraries, but also to search results and even the user interface. For instance, if you do not have permissions to a specific document list, then in the results of a search, you will not see any documents from that list. This permissions model helps protect sensitive data from people who should not see or distribute it. Handpicked related content: • SharePoint Administration Roles The following figure shows which system components each of the main SharePoint admin roles can manage: Here are the SharePoint server components and the corresponding administration roles: Server and farm roles • Windows Administrators— When SharePoint is installed on a Window Server, the local Administrators group on that server is automatically added to the SharePoint Farm Administrators group. As a result, these local administrators (Windows Administrators) have full control permissions on the SharePoint farm — they can install applications and software and manage Internet Information Services (IIS) web sites and Windows services. But, by default, they have no access to site content. • Farm Administrators— Members of the Farm Administrators group have full control permissions to all Sh...

More specifically, if I have a site collection I can create groups while in the root site. I can also create groups while in the various subsites. But from browsing the available groups in the subsites, regardless of whether or not the subsite is inheriting permissions or has unique permissions, I get the feeling that any changes to the groups in the subsite will impact the rest of the collection. So are all SharePoint groups attached to the site collection? The root site of the collection? or to the individual sites within the collection? Edit: I am asking the question because I need to map a SharePoint group name within a K2 Workflow. For reasons I do not fully understand, the K2 Workflow's SharePoint Group name resolution requires not only the K2 Security Label, but also a relevant site name prior to the group name. When using the K2 SmartObject for listing groups on the site, all the groups come back with names like this: root site\group 1 root site\group 2 root site\group 3 subsite A\group 1 subsite A\group 2 subsite B\group 2 subsite B\group 3 The K2 SmartObject list shows the groups in many of the collection's sites. However, the groups do not appear in all sites. I created two nested sub-sites under an existing sub-site, then broke inheritance and created a new group in both sites. The new groups show up, prefaced by the site name for the root site and many of the first level sub-sites. However, I did not see them with their own site names. What rules does SharePoi...

In this article APPLIES TO: 2013 2016 2019 Subscription Edition SharePoint in Microsoft 365 A site collection is a group of websites that have the same owner and share administrative settings, for example, permissions, and quotas. Site collections are created within a web application. When you create a site collection, a top-level site is automatically created in the site collection. You can then create one or more subsites below the top-level site. The entire structure of the top-level site and all its subsites is called a site collection. Learn about View the site collections in a web application Use the following procedures to view all the site collections in a web application. To view all site collections by using Central Administration Refer to the following table in step 3. Item Description URL The URL of the site collection. Title The current title for site collection. Description The current description for the site collection. Primary administrator The primary administrator for the site collection. Email address The email address for the primary administrator. Database name The content database that is used by the site collection. • Verify that you have the following administrative credentials: To view all site collections, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators group on the computer that is running the SharePoint Central Administration website. • Open Central Administration. On the Application Management page, in the Site Collections section, click View ...

More specifically, if I have a site collection I can create groups while in the root site. I can also create groups while in the various subsites. But from browsing the available groups in the subsites, regardless of whether or not the subsite is inheriting permissions or has unique permissions, I get the feeling that any changes to the groups in the subsite will impact the rest of the collection. So are all SharePoint groups attached to the site collection? The root site of the collection? or to the individual sites within the collection? Edit: I am asking the question because I need to map a SharePoint group name within a K2 Workflow. For reasons I do not fully understand, the K2 Workflow's SharePoint Group name resolution requires not only the K2 Security Label, but also a relevant site name prior to the group name. When using the K2 SmartObject for listing groups on the site, all the groups come back with names like this: root site\group 1 root site\group 2 root site\group 3 subsite A\group 1 subsite A\group 2 subsite B\group 2 subsite B\group 3 The K2 SmartObject list shows the groups in many of the collection's sites. However, the groups do not appear in all sites. I created two nested sub-sites under an existing sub-site, then broke inheritance and created a new group in both sites. The new groups show up, prefaced by the site name for the root site and many of the first level sub-sites. However, I did not see them with their own site names. What rules does SharePoi...

In this article APPLIES TO: 2013 2016 2019 Subscription Edition SharePoint in Microsoft 365 A site collection is a group of websites that have the same owner and share administrative settings, for example, permissions, and quotas. Site collections are created within a web application. When you create a site collection, a top-level site is automatically created in the site collection. You can then create one or more subsites below the top-level site. The entire structure of the top-level site and all its subsites is called a site collection. Learn about View the site collections in a web application Use the following procedures to view all the site collections in a web application. To view all site collections by using Central Administration Refer to the following table in step 3. Item Description URL The URL of the site collection. Title The current title for site collection. Description The current description for the site collection. Primary administrator The primary administrator for the site collection. Email address The email address for the primary administrator. Database name The content database that is used by the site collection. • Verify that you have the following administrative credentials: To view all site collections, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators group on the computer that is running the SharePoint Central Administration website. • Open Central Administration. On the Application Management page, in the Site Collections section, click View ...