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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...
Thank you for quick replies. I think discussion is going into another direction. I really would not prefer to go for Teams for now. Like I mentioned before the needs are just for portal home for news/feeds etc and department sites for departments (HR, Finance etc) for document sharing.
Look like I still didn't get an answers to my initial questions? :)
The same applies, hence why I said Working Site / Team. You can inject either one. I just suggested using a Group connected Team site (Not Teams) instead of a bunch of comm sites so you can expand those later if you choose and control the permissions via the group.
But nothing is stopping you from just using Comm sites, it's just preference, Comm sites have the top nav, team sites don't it's on the left. That will be able to be changed before long however so that won't be the case in the near future but for now it's something to consider. With Group connected Team site you get more web parts etc as well.
But if all you care about is Libraries and nothing else in the future, I would just go with Comm sites, joined to Hub or hubs. Don't use Subsites, they really aren't the future and are missing some features as you have discovered.
But nothing is stopping you from just using Comm sites, it's just preference, Comm sites have the top nav, team sites don't it's on the left. That will be able to be changed before long however so that won't be the case in the near future but for now it's something to consider. With Group connected Team site you get more web parts etc as well.
But if all you care about is Libraries and nothing else in the future, I would just go with Comm sites, joined to Hub or hubs. Don't use Subsites, they really aren't the future and are missing some features as you have discovered.
- What webparts/features are not available in subsites which are available in group connected team site?
You were concerned about navigation. A hub will allow you to build a menu that cascades down to all associated sites.
I think the main point here is that there is no benefit of using subsites over separate team sites.
- Like what benefit am I going to lose if I use subsites? as mentined above I do not need connectros or planner app on subsites. What else?
- Any office 365 connector can be used as a web part: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Connect-apps-to-your-groups-in-Outlook-ed0ce547-038f-4902-b9b3-9e518ae6fbab also you can't use Planner web part etc. but you probably won't need it if all the sites are doing is serving up documents.
As for "Subsites" you need to be thinking Site collections in a hub as virtual subsites. Many of the modern features etc. are not going to be guaranteed to work in Subsites, There are plenty of articles etc. out there touching on this topic as of late. If you want to chance it go ahead and do the subsite method, but it's been a topic of debate out there.
