{"id":169,"date":"2018-06-20T08:25:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/?p=169"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:35:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:35:31","slug":"sharepoint-365-site-collections-and-sites-you-can-create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writtinfool.com\/times\/2018\/06\/sharepoint-365-site-collections-and-sites-you-can-create\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharepoint 365 Site collections and sites you can create"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI\">Site Collections are what Sharepoint sites are placed into.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">They are the primary structural component of Sharepoint.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Except for Global admin, Everything in Sharepoint is done in site collections.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI\">There are three primary types<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Collaboration Site Collection templates<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Enterprise Site Collection templates<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Publishing Site Collection Templates<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI\">Our experience in Sharepoint 2010 Foundation was almost exclusively with Collaboration team sites.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI\"><em>The text in these outlines was pulled from the Sharepoint site creation user prompts<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Collaboration Site Collection templates<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\"><strong>Team Site (Classic experience):<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site with a classic experience on the home page and no connection to an Office 365 Group<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\"><strong>Blog site:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site for a person or team to post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\"><strong>Developer Site<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site for developers to build, test and publish apps for Office<span style=\"color:#444444\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\"><strong>Project Site:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site for managing and collaborating on a project. This site template brings all status, communication, and artifacts relevant to the project into one place.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\"><strong>Community Site:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A place where community members discuss topics of common interest. Members can browse and discover relevant content by exploring categories, sorting discussions by popularity or by viewing only posts that have a best reply. Members gain reputation points by participating in the community, such as starting discussions and replying to them, liking posts and specifying best replies.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Enterprise Site Collection templates<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Document Center<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site to centrally manage documents in your enterprise. If we use Knowledge Lake they will more than likely leverage this<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Article describing them <a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-us\/article\/Use-a-Document-Center-site-06096070-D83F-45B8-B02D-EC7A4CF85CAC\">https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-us\/article\/Use-a-Document-Center-site-06096070-D83F-45B8-B02D-EC7A4CF85CAC<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">eDiscovery Center<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI\">A site to manage the preservation, search, and export of content for legal matters and investigations<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Records Center:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI\">This template creates a site designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also lets you manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Team Site \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sharepoint online configuration<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI\">A Team Site configured to allow organization members to edit, create new sites, and share with external users.<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Business Intelligence Center:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI\">A site for presenting Business Intelligence content in SharePoint.<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Review Center<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Review center is used to manage the review process related items.<span style=\"color:#444444\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Compliance Policy Center<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Use the Document Deletion Policy Center to manage policies that can delete documents after a specified period of time. These policies can then be assigned to specific site collections or to site collection templates.<span style=\"color:#444444\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Enterprise Search Center:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI\">A site focused on delivering an enterprise-wide search experience. Includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to four search results page experiences: one for general searches, one for people searches, one for conversation searches, and one for video searches. You can add and customize new results pages to focus on other types of search queries.<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">My Site Host<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI\">A site used for hosting personal sites (My Sites) and the public People Profile page. This template needs to be provisioned only once per User Profile Service Application, please consult the documentation for details.<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Community Portal<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI\">A site for discovering communities.<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Basic Search Center<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site focused on delivering a basic search experience. Includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to a search results page, and an advanced search page. This Search Center will not appear in navigation.<span style=\"color:#444444\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Visio Process Repository:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site for viewing, sharing, and storing Visio process diagrams. It includes a versioned document library and templates for Basic Flowcharts, Cross-functional Flowcharts, and BPMN diagrams.<span style=\"color:#444444\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Publishing Site Collection Templates<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Publishing Portal<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A starter site hierarchy for an Internet-facing site or a large intranet portal. This site can be customized easily with distinctive branding. It includes a home page, a sample press releases subsite, a Search Center, and a login page. Typically, this site has many more readers than contributors, and it is used to publish Web pages with approval workflows.<span style=\"color:#444444\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Enterprise Wiki<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#43515b; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site for publishing knowledge that you capture and want to share across the enterprise. It provides an easy content editing experience in a single location for co-authoring content, discussions, and project management.<span style=\"color:#444444\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI\">Site Templates are sites you would add into a site Collection. There are two principle types<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Collaboration Site Templates<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Team Site (Classic experience):<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site with a classic experience on the home page and no connection to an Office 365 Group<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Blog site:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site for a person or team to post ideas, observations, and expertise that site visitors can comment on.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Project Site:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site for managing and collaborating on a project. This site template brings all status, communication, and artifacts relevant to the project into one place.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Community Site:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A place where community members discuss topics of common interest. Members can browse and discover relevant content by exploring categories, sorting discussions by popularity or by viewing only posts that have a best reply. Members gain reputation points by participating in the community, such as starting discussions and replying to them, liking posts and specifying best replies.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Enterprise Site templates<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Document Center:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site to centrally manage documents in your enterprise.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Records Center:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">This template creates a site designed for records management. Records managers can configure the routing table to direct incoming files to specific locations. The site also lets you manage whether records can be deleted or modified after they are added to the repository.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">Business Intelligence Center:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI\">A site for presenting Business Intelligence content in SharePoint.<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Enterprise Search Center:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#444444; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">A site focused on delivering an enterprise-wide search experience. Includes a welcome page with a search box that connects users to four search results page experiences: one for general searches, one for people searches, one for conversation searches, and one for video searches. 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