Multiple sites under one domain?

Thomas Sawyer

Greetings,

As a large university, we have a single domain that manages users. We have a team of professors that want to use a number of our Confluences licenses, which is not a problem. However, they want to use their own site (yyyyy.atlassian.net) vs. creating a space under our main university URL (xxxxx.atlassian.net). 

A few questions:
1) Can they do this?

2) Is it advised they do this? 

3) As site admin for the primary site, without joining their site, I'd have no visibility into their site activities, correct? 

TIA!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

1) Yes, they can do this.

2) Advised is hard to say. 

It depends on how your organisation wants to work.  You could let them be totally independent and do it all themselves (including having their own owners, admins and bill payers), or you could take them fully into the organisation and support them with your existing people.   Or somewhere between.   

I don't think we can tell you how your organisation wants to work!

3) Correct, but they could make you the site admin (and owner, and billable person) or just a user of their site or an admin.

I suspect it would be best to add the new site to your university one, so the user admin and billing is all in one place, but I can't be sure.

Edit - oh, I forgot - the professor's accounts on their separate system will have to be paid for separately for the other system.  Their access to your main site doesn't give them access to other sites, the site subscriptions are separate things.  (Unless you go up to Enterprise licencing)