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SharePoint Hub Sites due in February for Targeted Release?
- 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.
- Hi Craig, I notice your reply is to Mark-Kashman who can give you the authoritative reply and as you remark you do answer your own question in respect of the initial function of hub sites in modern SharePoint. I don’t feel there is a failure as the document library functionality is not the intended role of a hub site. I wonder if Chris McNulty might comment on whether there is a modern or classic method rolled out or planned to meet your use case. Regards
- Hi John. Thank you for the fast reply.
Apologies for the poor choice of wording, as you point out it is not the intended role. It would definitely be a game changer for our application of SharePoint if it was possible to leverage Hub site in this manner.
Regards,
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.
- Mark-Kashman just to confirm will all Hub Sites need to be created through PowerShell?
Savita Mittal from the demos I have seen, it will not have any impact on existing sites. They are providing the ability to create a new site collection that can be designated as a Hub and then you will be able to connect existing sites the new Hub, but this is totally optional. You may to replace some of the existing functionality in your intranet, but that will be up to you.
Thanks Dean.
Do you know when will it roll out. Its almost end of February.
- 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
Thanks Dean, wouldn't have come across that otherwise. It's been posted here, the hub sites section starts at 16 minutes in https://youtu.be/3iryF8Zh1yM
