Are you already on SharePoint Online or getting ready to migrate? SharePoint Hub Sites are a new solution within SharePoint Online and could change your information and technical architecture decisions going forward. During this session I will go under the covers of Hub Sites to show you how they work and why they were built. By the end of this session, you will have a better understanding of what they are, how to administer them, and if they are the right solution for your company.

1. What are
SharePoint Hub Sites
and how should they
be implemented
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2. Drew Madelung
Email : dmadelung@concurrency.com
Twitter : @dmadelung
Website: drewmadelung.com
Managing Architect – SharePoint & Office 365

3. What?
Why?
How?
Demos on Demos
What are SharePoint
Hub Sites and how
should they be
implemented
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4. Some things are better
when they are connected

5. Companies are made up
smaller groups and teams

6. Let ME connect and organize
my sites into groups
 Make it easier for users to find things
 Apply commonalities
 Allow flexibility
Kids
New hires
Benefits
Special
Project
Benefits
planning
Quests
Rewards
Special
interest
Research
Senior
Student
Facilities
Giving
Campaign
Comms
HR
Travel
Programs

7. SharePoint Hub Sites
Brings together related team sites and communication sites
Roll up news and site activity
Search across related sites
Cross-site navigation
Consistent look-and-feel across sites
Admins create, users adopt and use

8. Vendor
agreements
Legal portal
Regional partner
outreach
Policies
Customer
Event planning
HR
Quarterly reports Company-wide
Benefits
Acquired sales
Eco
Adventure
Travel
Programs
Customer connections
Travel
innovation
SalesRegional sales
Recognition
& rewards
EMEA sales
Expense tracker
Cultural
Big wins
Benefits
planning
New hires
EMEA
Records center
A dynamic, ever-changing digital workplace

9. A dynamic, ever-changing digital workplace
Vendor
agreements
Legal portal
Regional partner
outreach
Policies
Customer
Event planning
HR
Quarterly reports Company-wide
Benefits
Acquired sales
Eco
Adventure
Travel
Programs
Customer connections
Travel
innovation
Sales
Regional sales
Recognition
& rewards
EMEA sales
Expense tracker
Cultural
Big wins
Benefits
planning
New hires
EMEA
Records center

10. Demo

11. Details

12. Not intended to be single hub in a tenant – but could be!
50 hub sites max per tenant
Only uses site collections
No permissions are changed
A site collection can only be associated to 1 hub
Classic & Modern both work but classic is limited
Admins must create initial hub site
Associated
Site
Collection
Associated
Site
Collection
Associated
Site
Collection
Associated
Site
Collection
Associated
Site
Collection
Hub Site
Collection
Hub Sites Essentials

13. Only sites in the same geo can be in a hub – if multi-geo
Hub sites cannot be connected to other hub sites
Web parts
• News – Updated
• Highlighted Content – Updated
• Sites – New
Hub Sites Essentials
Associated
Site
Collection
Associated
Site
Collection
Associated
Site
Collection
Associated
Site
Collection
Associated
Site
Collection
Hub Site
Collection

14. Register or Unregister a hub site via PowerShell on
all types of site templates
Set hub site Title, Description, and Logo
Associate or Remove a site to an existing hub
Configure permissions for who is allowed to join a
hub site
• Only those groups or users specified can associate
their site to the hub site
What you can do with PowerShell
Register-SPOHubSite
Unregister-SPOHubSite
Get-SPOHubSite
Set-SPOHubSite
Add-SPOHubSiteAssociation
Remove-SPOHubSiteAssociation
Grant-SPOHubSiteRights
Revoke-SPOHubSiteRights
All commands also available using
PnP Powershell

15. You can join a hub site in a site design
• Use joinHubSite verb passing the ID of the hub site
REST commands available
• SP.HubSites.CanCreate — Returns whether the current user can create a hub site. Only tenant
admins can create hub sites.
• GetById — Gets or updates information about a hub site.
• HubSiteData — Get hub site data for the current web.
• HubSites — Gets information about all hub sites which the current user can access.
• JoinHubSite — Associates a site with an existing hub site.
• RegisterHubSite — Registers an existing site as a hub site.
• SyncHubSiteTheme — Applies any theme updates from the parent hub site.
• UnRegisterHubSite — Unregisters a hub site so that it is no longer a hub site.
More on extensibility

16. Hub site GUID is created and applied to site when registered
IsHubSite property is set to true
When a site is associated, that hub site GUID is applied to your site
A new Managed Property called DepartmentId is added and tagged with GUID
What happens behind the scenes

17. Demo

18. Communication sitesTeam sites
Created by users or admins Created by users or adminsCreated by admins
Navigation
Theme and logo
Search scope
Hub sites
A communication site
or team site
News and activity rollup
Building blocks of your Intranet

19. It’s a shared responsibility
• Sites
• Membership
• Joining hub sites
• Hub site creation
• Who can join hub sites
• Site designs
• Shared navigation
• Look & feel
Users
Hub owners
IT

20. Plan, plan, and plan some more
Use communication sites as a hub site
Think about a naming convention
Understand permissions
Going forward…

21. • xxxx
Help Contribute &
Stay Informed!
Microsoft Tech Community
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com
Office 365 Roadmap
https://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap
Office Blogs
https://blogs.office.com/
Office 365 Admin Center – Message Center
https://portal.office.com/AdminPortal

22. Questions?
Email: dmadelung@concurrency.com
Twitter: @dmadelung
Website: drewmadelung.com
Slides: http://bit.ly/DrewSlides

23. What are
SharePoint Hub
Sites and how
should they be
implemented
SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities 2018
#SPSTC