Permissions -- Full Control vs Admin Privileges - Office applications - Office 365

What is the difference between full control and admin privileges? This is a relatively simple site with a very small number of users. Thanks.

Hi Sue,

This is Bob Kasper from Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Support. Thank you for coming to the communities with your question on the differences between a user that has admin privileges and a user with full control privileges.

When you create a user and give them admin rights you are giving them Full control. So to answer your question there are the same thing .

Please let me know if there is anything else that I can assist you with as I will be monitoring this thread over the next few days.

Thank you,

Thanks for your help. Am I correct in understanding that to create sites, one needs that level of permissions?

Hi Sue,

Here is a Permission levels and permissions article that explains the differences in permission levels.

Please let me know if there is anything else that I can assist you with as I will be monitoring this thread over the next few days and will reply as soon as possible.

Thank you,