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Mary F Harvey's avatar
Mary F Harvey
Iron Contributor
Oct 21, 2017

Modern subsites?

All flavors of "Modern sites" that are created now are Site collections by definition with the top level site providing the "Modern" UI experience.  I'm wondering what the future is for subsites in t...
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Vinita VERMA's avatar
Vinita VERMA
Brass Contributor
Feb 26, 2018

Hello,

I have a classic site with 2000 subsites in it. If i convert it to a Hub site and link all subsites to the hub site; is it possible to do?

 

 

Martin Cox's avatar
Martin Cox
Brass Contributor
Feb 26, 2018
Vinita, no. Modern team sites and modern communication sites link to hub sites. I have not heard any simple answer to what do you do with thousands of classic sub-sites.
  • Vinita VERMA's avatar
    Vinita VERMA
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 27, 2018

    Thanks Martin for your quick response.

    If I change this main site from classic to Modern experience can then it be converted to a hub site?

     

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      Martin Cox
      Brass Contributor
      Mar 05, 2018

      I do not think you can change an existing classic site into a Hub site. Hub sites are 100% understood yet (are not yet released to all O365) but studying the thread in the blog by Mark-Kashman (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-hub-sites-new-in-Office-365/ba-p/109547) I found Mark say, "A hub site can be either like a team site or a communication site at its roots" which leads me to suspect you have to start with a modern site and then can make it into a Hub site. For sure the hub must be a site collection as modern team sites and modern communication sites are site collections.

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        Deleted
        Mar 05, 2018

        That is true i guess hope we will see this rolled out soon as more and more of my clients are asking for it.

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