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- [Andrew] If your organization is small,
you may only need to create one team site
for all of your business needs.
However, larger organizations may need multiple team sites
based on regional, hierarchical or departmental divisions,
or for different projects.
A reason to use multiple team sites
is to allow for different levels of control
over the features and settings.
You can have several team sites owned by different owners
with individual settings and permissions.
However, if one owner creates multiple team sites,
then those team sites
will share the same administrative settings and permissions.
The owner will create an initial team site
that is the very first top level site,
and then they'd create more subsites
off from this top level site.
A group of team sites is known as sites.
We should consider
some of the features and properties available.
if you're using groups of team sites.
The initial team site created
has a single root site or top level,
and all other team sites branch off from the root.
All the team sites within the group
will have the same site owners
and the same administrative settings.
But this can be changed
for each of the individual subsites.
Let's take a look how to create a new SharePoint site.
I've signed into my Microsoft 365 admin center
as a SharePoint administrator,
and then opened the SharePoint admin center.
On the left hand side, under science,
I'll click active sites.
And then click Create.
On the create a site page,
we need to choose the type of site we want to create.
This could be a team site or a communication site.
We could also use the other option to create a team site
without an Office 365 group, or create a classic site.
I'll select a team site.
I'll provide a team site name.
And the details for the group owner.
Confirm the language.
Here are a few of the advanced settings.
Here, we can configure privacy settings.
This can be private or public within the organization.
If you configure a site to be private,
then individual members need to request access to the site.
We'll confirm the time zone
and a site description.
Then click next.
We can now configure additional owners
and also specify members.
Once I'm done, I'll click Finish.
The new team site has been curated and is now live,
and we can see it in the list of active sites.
Here, we can see the site properties
including members, description, and sharing properties.
Each member of the group will receive a welcome email
with links to get them started
collaborating with the new team site.
I can select the link
from within the SharePoint admin center
and launch the team site.
Here, we can see we have four members.
And all of the components of the team site
have been correctly provisioned.
From the homepage. I can click plus new
and create new documents, new pages,
or even add apps to the team site.
On the left hand side,
we can click the links to view documents,
OneNote notebooks, and site contents.
Let's now see how to create a new team subsite
on an existing team site.
From the team site homepage,
I'll click the cog item in the top right-hand corner.
Then select site contents.
To create a new subsite we can then click
plus new, subsite.
And then complete the properties.
We'll need to provide a title, an optional description.
I'm looking to find the website address. I'll use internal.
We can choose the default language for the website
and select a template that we want to use.
I'll select the template. Team site is the most common.
And then notice the permission and navigation settings
are inherited from the parent site, which is recommended.
There are a few other settings which we'll leave as default,
and then click create.
The subsite is created and presented for customization.
I'll click the SharePoint link on top
and return to the homepage.
And now if we click IT Office Move,
we can see the breadcrumb of internal comms
listed at the top.
This represents our new subsite.
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