I have a question regarding SharePoint sites. I'd like to do some house-keeping on our SharePoint Online (we do not really use this yet in productive mode, we still run on an 2019 on-prem at the moment).
Yet our Online SharePoint is mainly used for self-creation of team sites for Teams stuff, and we also use it for a few sort of "root" sites like sales, finance, marketing etc. But the later mentioned sites are meant just as a PoC for now. During this stumbling around I figured out that these mentioned "root" sites where created long time ago by myself unter / and not under /sites or /teams. I probably created them with the old-fashioned Admin Center (sitemanager.aspx), and from there these are all visible and can be maintained. Within that old admin center none of my sites located under /sites or /teams are visible at all, I can still browse them though if I adjust my url like from https://<tenant-name>.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sitemanager.aspx to https://<tenant-name>.sharepoint.com/sites/MyPrivateTeam/_layouts/15/sitemanager.aspx. But there is a boundary here between / and /sites, I can never see it all in one place, either I see everything below / or everything below /sites/mysite. In the new Admin Center only stuff within /sites (or /teams) plus my root Site Collection itself are available. So there (New Admin) I am missing like https://<tenant-name>.sharepoint.com/sales, but I'd see it if it where located unter https://<tenant-name>.sharepoint.com/sites/sales.
This whole separation from Admin Center point of view between either Old Admin (sitemanager.aspx) can handle / or New Admin can handle /sites + /teams is a bit weird to me, seems like it's not yet finished somehow in new admin.
I doubt that it would be a good idea to start my organizations structure with sites under / (root) instead of 7sites. But then wihtin /sites there are loads of Teams sites I don't really care for. At least I figured out how I can set site creation url to /teams from /sites, so that newly self-created (e.g. Teams) sites get a /teams URL now, so that I can distinct between them. But we already have several Teams sites with located under /sit4es.
Two questions:
can anyone tell me what Microsoft's plans are with the new admin center, will it ever support also sites below/ so that I can manage these from there m(so basically any sites one tenant has). Or do you suggest to go for /sites managed path instead of / from the very beginning. Because there are some features in the new admin center like define a hub site which are missing in the old one.
Does anyone know if there is a possibility to move a site like from /sites/mysite to /teams/mysite? I'd like to have this done due to organizational reasons for my existing Teams-connected sites. Or isn't this even possible?
Start-SPOSiteContentMove -SourceSiteUrl https://tenant-name.sharepoint.com/sites/MySite -ValidationOnly -DestinationDataLocation https://tenant-namesharepoint.com/teams/MySiteis not suiting my needs, because it only works for Multi-Geo tenants, and is meant to move sites between geographical locations.
kind regards,
Dieter
