Hub sites are a new building block of the intranet, to bring together related sites to roll up news and activity, to simplify search, and to create cohesion with shared navigation and look-and-feel. Attend this session to learn all about this new awesome feature. Here are some keywords to get your attention :-): PowerShell, Azure functions, flow, site design, themes.

1. SharePoint hub sites in Office 365
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3. About me
Thorbjørn Værp
Principal Consultant & Regional Manager
@vaerpn
Kristiansand - Norway

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5. Hubsites?
• SharePoint powers your Office365 to better
promote and organize people, content and activities
throughout your connected workplace.
• You create sites in seconds,
• Sites are mobile ready from the get-go.
• They support various scenarios like internal cross-
company campaigns, product launches, events and
more.

6. Hubsites?
Select which site sources you
want to pull content in from –
news web parts filter news from a variety of
source sites, filtering based on content you
want to show, in the layout you find most
conducive to your overall site vision.
Hub site news web part update – the unique
‘hub layout’ in the news web part for
SharePoint hub sites will provide additional
capabilities like pinning news articles, a new
compact layout, and carousel support.

7. Hubsites?
Audience targeting – you can better define what news articles and pages appear on the home
experience of your site by configuring what is visible to specific groups. Each person will have a unique
experience that complies with what you wish them to view without creating multiple audience-specific sites,
you can serve them all from within a more centralized location with a personalized, targeted experience.

8. Hubsites?
Save for later – you can save news
articles to catch up on later, right from the
Web interface - as you can on mobile.
Simply click Save for later from the
bottom of the news article and it gets
added to your saved list, accessible from
the Me tab in the SharePoint mobile app.
You will also be able to access your saved
list from SharePoint home.

9. Hubsites?
Page approval – establish a new and custom
Microsoft Flow flows for approval. Simply name
your flow, add the person who will approve your
page, save it as a draft, submit for approval. Once
approved, the page status gets updated to
“published” and is visible to your intended readers.
Approvals for news posts work out of the box
thanks to integration with Microsoft Flow. Of which,
you, too, can further customize your workflow to
meet the needs of your specific approval process.

10. Hubsites?
Content organization (aka, page metadata &
content filtering) – better organize your pages in
libraries, and influence how they are viewed based on
specific criteria (metadata) that you apply to the page
itself.
You choose what region or role, what page type or
page status – and then present views that make it
possible for people to see, or not see, the page based
on how they meet that criteria.

11. Hubsites?
Add rich colors to the hub site header – you
will now have choices beyond the color white. It’ll be
easier and more flexible to adhere to your preferred
company theme and brand colors across more aspects
of the sites and pages.
Site scripting during hub site
association – once a site gets associated to a hub
site, it not only inherits the theme of the hub site, it can
now be further configured using powerful site scripting
methods to enforce permissions, shared metadata,
preferred content management, brand elements and
policies.

12. Hubsites?
Keeping connected in the go – Find what
you need
Take your intranet with you to stay connected and informed
about important content, news, sites and people while on the
go – for those in-between moments. You can easily get back
to what’s relevant to you, alongside powerful search
capabilities to find what you need, plus provide feedback via
comments and likes – all to keep work moving forward

13. DEMO

14. Roadmap first half 2019 (Ignite)
New megamenu layout
for site and hub navigation
- Increase the value and space of your site
navigation. The new megamenu options allow
for multiple levels of hierarchy at once - no fly-
outs needed. This will enable you to better
organize and showcase the related content
and sites associated under that hub site.

15. Roadmap first half 2019 (Ignite)
Personalized web parts
– Give a personalized experience to your
site and page visitors – so they see the
content that is theirs, and meant for them
to experience.

16. Roadmap first half 2019 (Ignite)
Audience targeting for News and
Highlighted content webparts
- You can better define what news
articles and pages appear on the
home experience of your site by
configuring what is visible to specific
groups, enabled in news, pages and
other web parts

17. Roadmap first half 2019 (Ignite)
Sites header layouts - Now, site owners can reclaim some of the vertical space at the top of the site and highlight
the main page content instead. There will be three new choices: standard, minimal and compact.
Sites adjust the footer of a site - When you change the look of your site, you can now add a site footer to
showcase common information you wish to highlight at the bottom of your site.
Central asset library – provide easy access to your organization’s approved images that can be leveraged by
everyone.
Web part: countdown timer – Site owners and members will now be able to show a countdown timer to
important launch dates, key meetings, campaign ends, etc. on their site home page
Enable communication site experience at the root of a tenant 
URL: https://[yourTenant].sharepoint.com. In 2018, we are rolling it out with a limited scope and will gradually cover more
root site scenarios for existing tenants.

18. QUESTIONS&
ANSWERS

19. Thank You!
• Skål 

20. 6th October 2018
Milan