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Office groups, sharepoint online and students
Hi, I'm not sure if this is a common education issue or just my own insecurities. I work for a large UK University. Our students have been using office 365 for a while, and that means they have some ...
We are at the beginning of the implementation of a Sharepoint Online based intranet / document management, but our approach is the same as Silvia Cazares wrote: we are going to create site collections for departments and other organizational units, using the 'root site' as a directory for quick access to the various sites.
I don't think that an extra domain would be necessary in your case, yet it might be problematic if someone 'reserved' a name for a group and then you need to create a site collection with the same name: you won't see that (o365 groups) site listed in the Sharepoint Admin Center, but you will get an error message when you try to create it, as both groups and site collection are living in the /sites/ namespace. Administrative management of o365 groups got definitely better in the last months but it still needs to be improved by Microsoft.
