Hello,
We are in the process of migrating Sharepoint 2010 to SharePoint online, currently we have 1 site collection that spawns multiple levels deep. Example:
MainIntraNet
MainIntraNet->Departments
MainIntraNet->Departments->IT
MainIntraNet->Departments->HR
MainIntraNet->Departments->Operations
MainIntraNet->Departments->Operations->SubDepartment1
MainIntraNet->Departments->Operations->SubDepartment1
MainIntraNet->Policies
and so on…
Going to SharePoint online we have the opportunity to restructure, would I be best off re-creating the current structure (and yes permissions are a mess) or would it be better to split them off more? Create a separate site collection for each Department?
Let me know what you have found to be best and why.
Thank you
More than the structure, I feel you need to separate out the sites/site collections considering the limits and thresholds like the maximum size of site, the number of groups that can be created, the number of sub sites that a site can have and so on.
In general, you can go for one site collection for Departments, One for Policies, etc. And your main intranet can be the launch pad with navigations to your other site collections.
As Fred highlighted, you might also look at hub sites for consolidating the sites in to one hub site. But before you opt for it have a look at my blog here to understand what hub sites offer and whats the cons you might end up using it.
