Exploring SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online (SPO), another essential part of Office 365, is a web-based collaboration and communication platform. Many organizations use SPO as an intranet.
SharePoint has two core design methodologies: classic and modern. Classic SharePoint is based on the older, on-premises versions of SharePoint Server, while modern SharePoint is a reimagining of the service, which relies heavily on responsive design elements and Microsoft 365 groups.
Regardless of which design methodology you choose (classic or modern), the underlying SharePoint technologies are largely the same. Content in SharePoint Online is organized hierarchically. This starts at the organizational or tenant level. From there, you have smaller groupings of content called site collections. Site collections, as the name implies, contain sites. A site collection can contain one or more sites.
With classic SharePoint, each site collection is generally a security boundary and contains...