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Create a site in SharePoint
- Select + Create site on the SharePoint start page.
- In the wizard: Select whether you’d like to create a Team site or a Communication site. Enter the name (and a description, if you want) for the site. You can select Edit.
- In the next pane, enter the owners and members.
- Select Finish.
It gives companies a way to automate business processes, track progress, and securely share information across departments (or even externally). Depending on a business, companies can use SharePoint as a document management system, collaboration software, intranet or extranet.
How to create a SharePoint site step by step?
Now that you know the SharePoint basics, let’s move on to how you can create your first SharePoint site in just a few steps: Select Your SharePoint Site Architecture. Before building your SharePoint site, you should decide what it will be used for and how it may evolve over time. There are several considerations: Number of site collections.
Where do all Department sites reside in SharePoint?
Not only all department sites reside in a single site collection, but they all reside just 1 level below the Homepage (the root of the site collection). Yes, you can create subsites under subsites and build complicated hierarchies, but the whole point of this option (method) is that they all reside just under the Homepage.
When you first design your SharePoint Team Site, have a pilot period where you can see how your end users are utilizing it. During the pilot period, make sure to get feedback from your end users and then make the necessary changes to make it your very own team site that meets your team’s needs.
Just create a site (collection), connect it to the hub, and you can always re-organize things later as you wish. It is like eating pizza. Does not matter which slice you start with – the result will be the same. You probably heard about the Broken Windows theory.