Forum Discussion

John Wynne's avatar
John Wynne
Silver Contributor
Apr 15, 2018

Limitation on the number of Hub Sites

Just noticed a limitation of 50 hub sites per tenant. As described here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/register-spohubsite?view=sharepoint-ps Is this limitation...
SharePoint Online
Jesse McHargue's avatar
Jesse McHargue
Brass Contributor
Jul 19, 2018

Is this only "Registered" Hub sites? Meaning, if a Hub is unregistered, does that free up a spot?

 

While I agree, 50 does seem low, at this point, we do not have a need for more than a few dozen, and that is over estimating. I may be wrong though.

Mark Moore's avatar
Mark Moore
Iron Contributor
Jul 26, 2018

This limit disappoints me greatly.  I had envisaged "normal" users being able to leverage Hub functionality.  My own team is a "line of service" team and as such we have over 20 different SharePoint sites, and a Hub would have been the perfect solution, but in my organisation of 150,000 people, being allocated a hub from such a small pool is never going to happen :(

  • John Wynne's avatar
    John Wynne
    Silver Contributor
    Jul 26, 2018
    Hi Mark, AFAIK this won’t be a permanent limitation. Looping in Mark-Kashman for his insights into this issue.
    • Mark Moore's avatar
      Mark Moore
      Iron Contributor
      Jul 26, 2018

      Thanks John

       

      I had assumed based on the current limits that the "expected" use of this functionality was going to be limited to high to mid level organisational constructs such as "finance", "HR" etc, and so also assumed that even if the limit was raised it wouldn't be a particularly large number.

       

      Are we saying that the vision is that anyone will be able to create a hub site (to replace the old "sub site" functionality)?  If so this would be great news

      • John Wynne's avatar
        John Wynne
        Silver Contributor
        Jul 26, 2018
        Conceptually, hub sites are not limited to organisational constructs. A hub site is a site which has been registered to allow other sites to be associated with it. A hub site enables a common navigation and look and feel together with focused search capabilities. Hub sites are not a replacement for sub sites and don’t serve the same hierarchical function. Any user can be permitted to create a hub site but from a governance perspective limiting access would be advisable. Unlike legacy site types, hub sites are easy to create, modify and delete. Deletion does not delete the site simply it’s role as a hub. So, the limitation on the number of hub sites is not restricted because of the ‘role’ of the site but a decision by Microsoft to cap this number. Different organisations may find the limit problem free but many, particularly larger organisations may hit issues. Hope this helps! There is plenty of content by Microsoft and other contributors here which better explain hub sites. Regards.

Resources