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SharePoint Hub Sites due in February for Targeted Release?
I was just thinking about Hub Sites and how to prepare for them and then I checked the Office 365 Roadmap and notice they are estimated for this month! Very happy but Mark-Kashman is Targeted Release around the corner? ;-) I hope so!
SharePoint hub sites
SharePoint sites are the building blocks of the mobile and intelligent intranet. SharePoint hub sites bring together related sites to roll up news and activity, and to create cohesion with shared navigation and look-and-feel. A hub site can have both team sites and communication sites associated under it.
Estimated Release: February CY2018
Feature ID: 21036
Added to Roadmap: 10/20/2017
Last modified : 02/03/2018
- Nearing the home stretch for hub sites into Targeted Release. We'll have an announcement blog to inform when we start rollout, plus a webinar, AMA and a fast follow 'planning guide' beyond the main help articles that will publish in parallel with the start of rollout. Hang tight, the team is working thru the last mile of this significant feature. :-) Cheers, Mark.
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Thank you for this information. Is there a general rule for how long it takes First Release (Targeted Release) functionality to make its way to Standard Release customers?
More specifically, if Hub Sites arrive to First Release customers in March, any guess as to when they may propagate to everyone?
- Commonly within a 4-6 week window.
Sorry, but there is no good way to estimate how long it takes for a deployment to finish. Sometimes it is a few weeks other times it has been many months. MS gathers data during the deployment process and adjusts things when necessary.
Dean_Gross wrote:
Sorry, but there is no good way to estimate how long it takes for a deployment to finish. Sometimes it is a few weeks other times it has been many months. MS gathers data during the deployment process and adjusts things when necessary.
That's what I was afraid of.
Just curious how many of you have your production tenants set to Targeted Release?
We've been reluctant to do this, because it feels like beta testing in production. Honestly, we're constantly seeing SharePoint updates with little or no warning in Standard Release, so I'm not sure there's much additional risk.
- Nearing the home stretch for hub sites into Targeted Release. We'll have an announcement blog to inform when we start rollout, plus a webinar, AMA and a fast follow 'planning guide' beyond the main help articles that will publish in parallel with the start of rollout. Hang tight, the team is working thru the last mile of this significant feature. :-) Cheers, Mark.
I have a question on Hub Sites, perhaps you can help with although I suspect I already know the answer.
Can I share libraries across sites joined to a Hub?In my scenario, I have four teams each with their own team sites. I join them to a Hub. I have a single document library called "Policies" that I want to all four teams to have access to.
I do not want to create separate libraries on each site. I do not want the users to leave their Team site to access the 'Policies' library.
I expect that while the Hub sites may be useful for newsfeeds, there is a failure to address sharing of documents across teams.- This would not be solved with SharePoint hub sites, though in your scenario it makes sense to associate all these four team sites under the same hub site. And then as an additional step, you could create links within each library to represent the other four - this is simply using the "link" feature to add new content into a document library that exists already outside the library itself. And the feedback is noted and will ensure we bring up the concepts of shared libraries and folders from associated sites up to the hub beyond search - which is in scope for this coming release.
Mark,
How it will effect the existing o365 online intranet?
- It is solely choice, nothing will happen to your existing site if you take no action. Once SharePoint hub sites begin Targeted Release (within next 1-2 weeks we'll begin), your admin(s) will then have a choice to create a new modern team site (group-connected) or a communication site and then convert it into a hub site using PowerShell. Or, you can do this on existing modern team sites or a communication sites. And you can create multiple hub sites following the above patterns.
- Thanks, Mark! Is there a way to be notified about the rollout events? We might be an early adopter once hub sites are available, so I don't want to miss these.
Just got off of a very informative call about the new Hubs with lots of demos. You may want to check out the recording when it gets posted at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mKdhw-V6CeCM7gTo_Iy7w/featured
- Interesting! Not seeing this message yet in my tenants
