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Frank Smith's avatar
Frank Smith
Brass Contributor
Oct 16, 2018

SharePoint site structure

Hi,   Our institution is new to both Office 365 and SharePoint ....   At the moment our IT department are creating SharePoint Sites without regard to any hierarchical site structure. Each Site is...
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Jeremy Hamilton's avatar
Jeremy Hamilton
Brass Contributor
Oct 17, 2018

Sub-sites are going away. Your IT team has it right.

 

Frank Smith's avatar
Frank Smith
Brass Contributor
Oct 17, 2018
I agree that subsites are not the way to go, absolutely, and that hub sites with associated sites are.
My disagreement with IT is a lack of interest in both sub sites and hub sites to create any form of structure.
As it happens IT are now coming round to the idea.
At this point I must make it plain that IT are under enormous pressure in other areas so have little time to investigate. But seeds have been planted and changes are planned
  • Jeremy Hamilton's avatar
    Jeremy Hamilton
    Brass Contributor
    Oct 17, 2018
    Can you explain why you NEED a subsite and not just a regular site under your organizational hub site?
    • Frank Smith's avatar
      Frank Smith
      Brass Contributor
      Oct 23, 2018

      I now realize we don't necessarily need sub sites and our structure will take advantage of a Hub Site and associated site relationship.

       

      My original point was that IT had not looked at conventional Site Collections nor Hub Sites

       

      By the way I'd be interested in your, and anyone's opinion of the following educational curriculum structure that I have created, which appears to work....... but I'm wondering if there is something I've missed !

       

      I have created Office 365 Teams for College Departments and College Courses. That works fine but there's no visible relationship between a Department and its associated Courses in Teams.

       

      So, I've looked at the underpinning SharePoint Sites that were automatically created when the Office 365 Teams were created...........Basically I have made each Department Site a Hub Site, and associated the Course Sites that were related to that Department.....This now provides a Structure in SharePoint that gives me the visible relationship I need.........

       

      However is this an acceptable process ?

      Could Microsoft pull the plug ?

       

      Frank

      • RobElliott's avatar
        RobElliott
        Silver Contributor
        Oct 23, 2018

        My problem with the move to hub sites and associated sites over subsites is that each organization is only allowed (currently) 100 hub sites. In our company with 65000 staff and well over a hundred business units we can't all have a hub site and their use is being severely restricted by the central SharePoint team. Hopefully the 100 limit will be raised to something far larger in due course.

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