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What is the purpose of a hub site?
Hub sites bring your organizations team site and communication sites together. Hub sites displays news, events and site activities across all the sites (both team sites and communication sites). Your users will be able to stay up-to-date with the latest news and events within one location.
What is the difference between hub site and communication site?
Each communication site and Microsoft 365 group-connected team site is created as a site collection that can have its own permissions. A hub site (most commonly created from a communication site) should also be considered its own unit of work that brings together many other sites.
How many sites can you have in SharePoint?
According to the current SharePoint Online Limits guidance, an organization can have up to 500,000 site collections. This does not include the per licensed user One Drive for Business site collections.
Which is the new way of using hub sites?
Create a new classic team site (mainly to use the built-in root site collection). To create separate classic team sub-sites for our departments. But recently I read about Hub sites, and it is been mentioned that using hub sites should be the new/modern way of having sub-sites.
What’s the difference between a hub and a subsite?
This feature is unique to Hub Sites and was not possible with Subsites. You can aggregate news and events from multiple sites in the “parent” Hub Site (using News and Events web parts respectively). This is pretty handy. Say you built out an Intranet Hub.
To have separate sites or sub-sites for each department. Such as HR, IT, Finance, etc. Now I was planning to follow the traditional way of doing things, mainly by: Create a new classic team site (mainly to use the built-in root site collection). To create separate classic team sub-sites for our departments.
Where does the hub bar go on SharePoint?
When a SharePoint administrator creates a hub site, they’re converting an existing SharePoint site to a hub site. A hub site navigation bar will appear at the top of the site, but the home page and all site contents will remain the same.