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Preparing for SharePoint Hub Sites
Thx, John.
We're working on hub sites Targeted Release very soon. As you noted, the message center post went out last week as a heads up to Office 365 admins.
We’re glad to see you’re excited for the coming SharePoint hub sites. Everything we have to date has been updated in this disclosure blog post (which also links to a webinar we gave around the same time): https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-hub-sites-new-in-Office-365/ba-p/109547.
And soon we’ll have an updated “launch” blog to announce Targeted Release, links to all new documentation (which for any feature don't typically publish until Targeted Release begins; these will cover how to set up and configure them), plus a webinar to showcase it along with a broader intranet planning and strategy with Sue Hanley, Sam Marshal and myself on Mar.28.2018, “Intranet Strategy & Planning with SharePoint Hub Sites & Office 365”: https://collab365.community/events/intranet-sharepoint-hub-sites-office-365/. We're also working on a fast-follow "intranet planning guide" which is a culmination of guidance from our engineering teams, a key MVP in this space, and yours truly - we'll make noise when this is avialable.
Lots to come, and we’ll be engaged throughout roll out, beginning with answering any open questions during a planned (but not yet announced :-)) AMA on Mar.23.2018 within the SharePoint portion of the MS Tech Community: http://office.com/sharepoint/community.
Typing fast, working to address all. Keep the feedback and questions flowing...
Thanks,
Mark
Strange that after all this time/lead-up there isn't more detailed documentation about Hub Sites.
It is unclear, for example, about whether or not Hub Sites can be created outside Powershell.
Reading through Mark’s entries on this community and the Message Center I read it that new sites can be created as Hub Sites but existing Team and Communication Sites would need to be migrated to become Hub Sites via PowerShell.
Since Hub Sites are optional a customer can take more time in rolling them out once the documentation is available. I think the effort in deploying Hub Sites is considering how to use them effectively.