Hello, I thought this question would be a setup/configuration/operation question, any thoughts or advices will be greatly appreciated!! So we would like to stand up couple of team sites (3-4 total) for these different programs, on our enterprise SharePoint environment which is MOSS 2007. Usually what happens with our enterprise SP is that we request a SP site by filling out a form and they just give us a site collection with Site Owner level permissions. What would be the reasons I would want to have all these sites under a Site collection named "Programs" and have each sites as sub-sites VS. have 4 different site collections for each of the programs? I understand it depends on the situation, and I thought it would be better if we would have separate site collections...please correct me if i'm wrong. These programs are unrelated so there would be no need for a centralized navigation with a top-level page, no need for a search across all 4 program sites, and we would actually like to have these in separate contentDBs to do backups. So I thought it would be best to just have these as separate site collections, and just have like a link to different site collections in case users want to go to other program sites... I just couldn't think of any reasons to have them all together within one site collection, so please let me know if there's anything i'm missing here..... Thank you so much!!! - John

Hey John, You are correct. From what you have mentioned, there is really no reason, other than for grouping, to have the site collections together as sub site. That said, I would recommend that you create a "Managed Path" called "Programs". That will enable you to create (or in your case move) site collections under the http://DOMAIN/Programs/<SiteCollection> urls. Start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb802766(office.12).aspx I trust that answers your question... Thanks C http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog

Hi Mr.van Dyk thanks for the input, yes the enterprise IT will deal with managed path so we'll have something like that :) thanks again JK