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Using Communication site for intranet - need help?
Hi, I really like modern layout in communication & team sites and now MS is introducing hub sites too. I am preparing our company intranet portal using Communication site as the home page which wi...
And to add to Juan's comments. I would suggest doing Group Connected Team sites for your sub sites, these can be joined to your Hub as well, but it also allows the use of Microsoft Teams to sit on top of these sites so that you could also use them as well.
However, I took a little different approach. I had a Top level site with news etc. But I had a communication site for each department that wanted an org presence. A requirement was that these sites be open to the entire org. These comm sites they had power users that could create news on their sites etc. which would then roll up to the main Intranet homepage. These sites also had document libraries where the departments knew this is where they put unsecured, open to the org documents.
Then I also replicated a site for all the departments as their "Working" Sites/Teams where they used for working out of and put their private documents related to their groups in. Showed them how they could use "Move to" to move from Private working site to public when it was ready to be etc. Not every department wanted a public site, which is ok, but they all had Private working sites / Teams they worked from, the ones that wanted a Public facing comm site I set them up.
I had a hard rule that if you wanted your Site link put in the global nav, or on the homepage, it had to be open to the org. You don't want to play access request roulette since the global nav is not security trimmed yet.
However, I took a little different approach. I had a Top level site with news etc. But I had a communication site for each department that wanted an org presence. A requirement was that these sites be open to the entire org. These comm sites they had power users that could create news on their sites etc. which would then roll up to the main Intranet homepage. These sites also had document libraries where the departments knew this is where they put unsecured, open to the org documents.
Then I also replicated a site for all the departments as their "Working" Sites/Teams where they used for working out of and put their private documents related to their groups in. Showed them how they could use "Move to" to move from Private working site to public when it was ready to be etc. Not every department wanted a public site, which is ok, but they all had Private working sites / Teams they worked from, the ones that wanted a Public facing comm site I set them up.
I had a hard rule that if you wanted your Site link put in the global nav, or on the homepage, it had to be open to the org. You don't want to play access request roulette since the global nav is not security trimmed yet.