The document discusses SharePoint hub sites in Office 365. It describes hub sites as site collections that set the navigation and look and feel for other sites connected to the hub. It provides examples of how hub sites can be used to organize intranets, projects, product launches and events. It outlines several upcoming features for hub sites including improved navigation options, personalized web parts, audience targeting, and new site header and footer layouts.

1. SharePoint hub sites in Office 365
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4. What is a SharePoint hub site?
• A hub site is a site collection that rules
navigation and look feel of other sites that are
joined the Hub

5. What is a SharePoint hub site?
• A hub site is a site collection that rules
navigation and look feel of other sites that are
joined the Hub
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6. What is a SharePoint hub site?
• A hub site is a site collection that rules
navigation and look feel of other sites that are
joined the Hub
HUB
SiteSiteSite

7. Hub sites
• 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:
• Intranet, Project, Product launches, Events etc.

8. Hub sites
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.

9. Hub sites
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.

10. Hub sites
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.

11. Hub sites
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.
You can further customize your workflow to meet
the needs of your specific approval process.

12. Hub sites
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.

13. Hub sites
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.

14. Hub sites
Keeping connected in the go – Find what
you need
Take your Hubsites 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

15. DEMO

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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

19. Roadmap first half 2019 (Ignite)
Central asset library
– provide easy access to your
organization’s approved images that
can be leveraged by everyone. When a
person needs an approved image, or
one that was purchased for licensed
use throughout the Hub site, they can
click on “Your organization”.

20. Roadmap first half 2019 (Ignite)
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.

21. 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.
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.

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