In principle, you could have a hub site as your intranet home page, pull in corporate news from a communication site, and also give each department a team site for additional news items. Does this mean we can use Hub Sites as our Intranet or is it still some building blocks missing?

1. SHAREPOINT SATURDAY ISTANBUL
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2018
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2. #SPSISTANBUL

4. Agenda
• Who is Knut
• What is an Intranet
• What is a hub site
• Features in a hub site
• How to build your hub sites
• Webparts to use in your hub sites
• Summary
• Demos
• Discussions
• And alot of fun 

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SharePoint evangelist, mentor, speaker
Migration Expert
Educator for Glasspaper
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Product Evangelist & Partner Manager Valo
Intranet Box
Founder DocsNode, www.Docsnode.com
Knut Relbe-Moe
knut@valointranet.com
https://linkedin.com/in/shareptkarm@shareptkarm

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11. Modern Intranet

12. The Modern
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15. Typical Requirements
• Company news
• Content pages (Guidelines,
About us, etc.) with document
attachments
• Links
• Event calendar
• Content Search + People Search
• Social engine
• Videos
• Blogs
• Surveys
• Forms and workflows
• Content targeting
• Multilingual/multi-country
• Mobile
• Analytics
• Document management
• Teamwork
• Our People
• Employee directory

16. Todays Modern Building blocks
• Microsoft ModernTeam Sites
• Communication Sites
• Modern List Layout
• Modern Page Library Layout
• Powerapps & Flow
• Modern Pages
• PNP for Provisioning
• Hub sites

17. Communication sites

18. News

19. Events

20. Group calendar

21. What is hub sites

22. Hub Sites
Source: Microsoft

23. From Microsoft:
SharePoint hub sites help you meet the needs of
your organization by connecting and organizing
sites based on project, department, division,
region, etc. making it easier to:
• discover related content such as news and other site activities,
• apply common navigation and branding across associated sites,
• search across all associated sites.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-is-a-sharepoint-
hub-site-fe26ae84-14b7-45b6-a6d1-948b3966427f

24. Hub sites allow us to eliminate the inflexibility
and governance limitations of “dreaded”
subsites, while providing a way to replicate one
of the key benefits of subsites — a way to create
a shared experience among related sites. Hub
sites can help kill subsites, but not without a little
planning. (Susan Hanley)
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3280102/enterprise-
applications/6-tips-for-planning-sharepoint-hub-sites.html

25. Features of the hub sites

26. Shared navigation
Search across the hub

27. Search across the hub

28. So how shall we use Hub Sites?

29. The Earth is flat…
Intranet
TeamworkAbout UsInternal Services What’s New
Company Presentation
Our Locations
Leadership
…
Forms
Human Resources
Information Technology
…
Classifieds
Event Hub
Latest video
…

30. The Earth is flat…
Intranet
TeamworkAbout Us
Internal Services What’s New
Intranet Hub

31. Planning your hub sites

32. Planning your hub sites

33. Common usage cases for hub sites
• Department hubs—consider common shared services groups like IT, HR,
Marketing or Finance where there are likely a large number of collaboration
initiatives underway and natural structure in place for how work is being done.
• Regional hubs—for large organizations that have many regional locations or
sites, hubs could be a great way to provide a sense of local identity and highlight
communication from within the region.
• Project hubs or a PMO hub—most larger organizations have a PMO and
manage a collection of Programs and Projects. Providing a simple mechanism to
access all the active and completed projects and rolling-up project related
announcements or status details are common needs that could easily be satisfied
with a hub.

34. Common usage cases
• Board hub—with Office 365, many companies are setting up their Boards with
an externally available site to host critical board reports and meeting materials
• Financial reporting hub—end of quarter and end of year financial reporting
cycles often require a tremendous amount of collaboration across departments
that all roll-up to finance.
Source: https://www.habaneroconsulting.com/stories/insights/2018/common-use-cases-for-office-
365-sharepoint-hub-sites

35. Planning your hub sites

36. Recommended webparts

37. News Roll-up

38. News Roll-up
New published on a hubsites and associated sites is automatically
aggregated
Choose which associated sites to display news from
Users will only see news they have access to

39. Highlighted content

40. Highlighted content
Use the Highlighted content web part to dynamically display content
from sites associated with the hub site on the home page.
Select the sites you want to show information from
Select the type of content you want to show, and apply different
filters to also narrow down the result

41. Associated sites

42. Associated sites
Display the most active sites associated with the hub site on the home
page by using the Sites web part. And choose the layout you want

43. What is coming the next few months
announced at #MSIgnite

44. What is coming
1. New megamenu layout for site and hub navigation
2. Events web part rolls up events from associated sites
3. Create associated site from within hub site itself
4. Create, associate/disassociate, plus report on hub sites in the
SharePoint admin center in Office 365
5. Approval on association

45. New megamenu layout for site and
hub navigation -

46. Events web part rolls up events from
associated sites -

47. Create associated site from within
hub site itself

48. Create, associate/disassociate, plus report
on hub sites in the SharePoint admin center
in Office 365

49. Summary

50. What does hub sites offer
• They add a consistent branding across all sites
• They add a persistent menu, making it easier to move between the
linked sites.
• If you search within the hub site, it will also search all linked sites.
• A handy news digest option lets you collate selected news stories to
go out as an email summary, with images and links.
• We recently also got content targeting
• And we will also get publishing workflow/flow

51. Hub Site Limitations
• Sites linked into a hub site can only be associated with one hub site.
• Hubs can’t be nested, limiting their potential for a corporate portal
• No fix for multiple languages
Source, Sam Marshall: https://www.cmswire.com/digital-workplace/hub-sites-raise-sharepoints-
intranet-potential/

52. Configuration tips
• You can always detach a site from a Hub if you want to attach it to another hub site in
the future.
• News, once posted on an associated site, typically takes 5–15mins to index and roll-up
to the Hub
• Hubs do not influence permissions.
• Cross site navigation means that the associated sites will have two top level navigation
bars — the hub site navigation and the current site navigation.
• Hubs will work with the SharePoint mobile app, so consider communicating to end
users which hubs they should follow or find
• You can setup your hub to require approvals. That way, not anyone would be able to
attach to a hub but instead they would have to be approved by the hub Site Owner

53. So does hub site helps us
with our Modern
SharePoint Intranet?

55. What other options do we have?

56. SharePoint Modern Starter Kit
https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-starter-kit

57. 3rd party vendors

58. 3rd party vendors

59. 3rd party vendors

60. Providers – A lot different, so you just need
to find the one you trust and loves.
https://www.clearbox.co.uk/portfolio-item/sharepoint-
intranets-in-a-box-report-second-edition/
•Attini from Rapid Circle
•Attollo Intranet, from Red Plane
•Bonzai from Dynamic Owl
•EasyShare from Easy SharePoint
•FLEX from ICS Solutions
•Gimmal Intranet and Portals from Gimmal
•Go Intranet Accelerator from Habanero
•Hadron from Cloud Two
•Hoozin, from Hoozin
•Injio from Webvine
•InterChange Digital Workplace from Akumina
•Kasama from Circle T
•Kira from CompanyNet
•LiveTiles SharePoint from Live Tiles
•LS Intranet from Lizard Soft
•Omnia from Prescio Fishbone AB
•OneWindow Workplace from Portal Solutions
•PortalGo! from Rhipe
•Powell 365 from Powell Software
•Rise from Perficient
•Simplify from Content Formula
•SP Intranet from SP Marketplace
•Unily from Brightstarr
•Valo Intranet from Blue Meteorite
•Wizdom from Webtop
•Work Platform Prime from Emgage

61. Collab 365 Directory
• https://collab365.directory/office365-sharepoint/best-sharepoint-
intranet-templates/#prettyPhoto

62. Extend the current webparts of the
modern pages:
• https://github.com/OlivierCC/spfx-40-fantastics

63. MegaMenu -
• https://www.masthead365.com/

64. Thank you!

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