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SharePoint hub sites new in Office 365

Marcel

Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-hub-sites-new-in-Office-365/ba-p/109547

Today at Ignite 2017, we announced SharePoint hub sites, a new building block of the intranet, to bring together related sites to roll up news and activity, to simplify search, and to create cohesion with shared navigation and look-and-feel.

SharePoint hub sites bring together related sites to roll up news and activity, and to create cohesion with shared navigation and look-and-feel.SharePoint hub sites bring together related sites to roll up news and activity, and to create cohesion with shared navigation and look-and-feel.

You can use SharePoint hub sites to organize concepts, teams, divisions, or resources throughout your businesses. Let’s dive into the details.

Create a cohesive set of related sites with shared navigation, look and feel

A hub site brings consistency across sites from the top down. When a team site or communication site is associated to a hub site, it inherits common characteristics, including:

 

  • Navigation – Define top navigation in the hub site that is inherited by associated sites.
  • Theme – Define the look and feel of the hub site, and that theme remains consistent across associated sites.
  • Logo – A logo on a site is like the green sticker on a map that says, “You are here.” It’s an important identifier of the site you are visiting, and the information and people the site represents. A consistent logo defined by the hub site and used by associated sites says, “You are here, and you have not left.”

SharePoint hub sites bring together team sites and communication sites together into more centralized locations within your intranet.SharePoint hub sites bring together team sites and communication sites together into more centralized locations within your intranet.

Roll up and present a consolidated view of news and activities

Throughout the lifecycle of your projects, your launches, your internal campaigns, it is important to increase visibility, awareness and discoverability beyond the core day-to-day people, and not expect everyone to have to drill into the various related sites, but more represent a clear, broad picture of what’s happening across sites, aka, what’s happening across projects and initiatives. Team sites and communication sites push content and information up to the hub site level with:

  • News aggregation –After you create and publish a news article on an associated site, the news article surfaces on SharePoint home, in the SharePoint mobile apps, and now on the hub site’s home page.
  • Combined site activities – It’s important to know what is happening within sites, so you can prioritize your focus and your time. Site activities are visible on a team site’s home page, and on the site’s card on SharePoint home. Now, site activities will roll up from each associated sites so that they are visible on the hub site’s home page, so you can see what happening across related sites, instead of having to view activity site by site.
  • Scoped search – When you search for content from a hub site, results include content from all associated sites. Because associated sites are related, search from the hub site home page increases relevance, and enhances content discovery.

Create hub sites and associate team and communication sites

It is easy for admins to create one or more hub sites. After a hub site is created, site owners can associate existing team sites and communication sites with the hub site, or to associate a new site while creating a site from SharePoint home in Office 365Soon you will be able to create an associated site directly from within the hub site itself.

Site owners can associate an existing team site or communication site with a hub site.Site owners can associate an existing team site or communication site with a hub site.

Site owners can associate an existing team site or communication site with a hub site.

  1. Click the gear icon in the upper right of the site.
  2. Click Site information.
  3. In the Edit site information pane that appears, click the Hub site drop-down menu and choose the right hub site to join.

Note that team sites and communication sites can only be associated to one hub site. And as easy as it is to join a site to a hub site, you, too, can un-join from one. This is the power of a dynamic intranet, one that can change and adapt with the ebb and flow of your ever-changing business landscape.

Access hub sites and associated sites with the SharePoint mobile app

The SharePoint mobile app helps keep your work moving forward by providing quick access to all your sites, news and the team members you work with, and search to find content and people across your organization.

 

With the addition of SharePoint hub sites, the SharePoint mobile app will be updated to natively render hub sites, and their pages, news, and content, with smooth navigation between associated sites and the scoped search experience. Find what you need on the go, and get going!

SharePoint hub sites and their associated sites are easy to access and navigate via the SharePoint mobile app.SharePoint hub sites and their associated sites are easy to access and navigate via the SharePoint mobile app.

Moving forward and growing together

Team sites, communication sites and now hub sites – as well as classic publishing sites and sites for applications – are building blocks of your intranet. SharePoint connects the workplace so that you can share, manage, and find the content, knowledge, and apps you need, on any device.

 

As you modernize and extend your intranet to support collaboration and communication, SharePoint will support you and your teams now and into the future.

 

Let us know what you need next. We are always open to feedback via UserVoice and continued dialog in the SharePoint community in the Microsoft Tech Community —and we always have an eye on tweets to @SharePoint. Let us know.

 

—Mark Kashman, senior product manager for the SharePoint team

 

FAQs

Q: When can I expect to see SharePoint hub sites appear in my Office 365 tenant?

A: SharePoint hub sites with begin rolling out to Office 365 First Release customers in the first half of calendar year 2018.

 

Q: Can a hub site replace my current organizational portal?

A: Hub sites are designed to let you dynamically organize closely related sites, bringing together similar projects, and binding related assets, and presenting common activity. Customers with portals that include customization beyond the web parts and extensions that SharePoint Framework currently supports are likely to continue using the SharePoint publishing infrastructure, which continues to be fully supported both in SharePoint Server on-premises and SharePoint Online.

 

Q: When should I use a team site, and when should I use a communication site?

A: Your SharePoint team site lets you share content, knowledge, news and apps with your group as collaborate on a project. A communication site lets you tell your story, share your work, and showcase your product across the organization.

Introducing the SharePoint Migration Tool from Microsoft

Marcel

Source: For more information  and whole article go to : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/Introducing-the-SharePoint-Migration-Tool-from-Microsoft/ba-p/109767

For additional details and to see the SharePoint Migration Tool in action, check out the video below.

 

While the SharePoint Migration Tool provides support for many migration scenarios, we recognize your needs may differ in scope and complexity.  For more complex migrations, support with adoption and usage, or help planning Microsoft FastTrack includes resources, tools, and experts to make your rollout of Office 365 a success.

Getting Started
To get started and preview the new SharePoint Migration Tool from Microsoft visit https://aka.ms/spmt.

Resources
How to use the SharePoint Migration Tool
How the SharePoint Migration Tool works
How to format your CSV file for data content migration
Create a user mapping file for data content migration
SharePoint Online and OneDrive Migration Speed SharePoint Online provided Azure containers and queues for SPO Migration API

 

New site theming options for SharePoint sites in Office 365

Marcel

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/New-site-theming-options-for-SharePoint-sites-in-Office-365/ba-p/94001

Sometimes there’s nothing like a fresh coat of paint to make a room or a house look new, familiar and engaging! Well, get your paint brushes ready. The new site theming experience, previewed last may during the SharePoint Virtual Summit (showcased here), will begin rolling out to First Release customers on August 21st, 2017. This new capability provides site owners with six default themes that can be applied to all pages of the site – both within team sites and communication sites.

To get started, just click the upper-right site gear icon, and then select Change the look. You then can quickly click on each item and see the change in real-time. In no-time you’ll have the site looking spiffy and new.

How to: Add or remove columns on a page in SharePoint

Marcel

Source: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-or-remove-columns-on-a-page-fc491eb4-f733-4825-8fe2-e1ed80bd0899

Add or remove columns on a page

You can add columns to sections within pages. To show content side-by-side, you can add up to three columns to each section. Vertically, you can have multiple sections with varying numbers of columns.

Add a section with columns to a page

  1. Go to the page where you want to add columns.
  2. If you’re not in edit mode already, click Edit at the top right of the page.
  3. Hover your mouse below the title area of the page, or above or below an existing web part, and you’ll see a line with a circled +, like this:

    Plus sign for adding web parts to a page

  4. Click Circled plus sign used to add a modern web part to a page .
  5. Under Section layout, select the number of columns you want.

    Section layout

Add or remove columns in an existing section

NOTE: When you have content in two or more columns, and then reduce the number of columns, the content in the right most column will move to the next column on the left. If you reduce to one column, content in the second or third columns will move to the bottom of the first column.

  1. Go to the page where you want to add columns.
  2. If you’re not in edit mode already, click Edit at the top right of the page.
  3. Each section of a page is marked with a dotted line. In the section you want to add columns to, click Edit section on the left side of the page.

    Edit section

  4. In the Section toolbox on the right side, choose the number and type of columns you want.

    Section layout pane

Add content to a column

  1. If you’re not in edit mode already, click Edit at the top right of the page.
  2. Go to the column where you want to add content.
  3. Hover your mouse over the column and click Circled plus sign used to add a modern web part to a page .
  4. Select the web part you want to add to the column, and then add your content to the web part. Learn about using web parts.

 

SharePoint communication sites begin rollout to Office 365 customer

Marcel

SharePoint Communication sites are now rolling out to Office 365 First Release customers, followed by full worldwide rollout to Office 365 customers in the coming months.

https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2017/06/27/sharepoint-communication-sites-begin-rollout-to-office-365-customers/

 

Nice tip to enforce new communcation sites in your tennant

Want to Get a Look at the New Communication Sites? Here’s a Trick!

 

News on SharePoint home in Office 365

Marcel

Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/News-on-SharePoint-Home-is-rolling-out/m-p/53091#M5098

Improve the consumption of your news. Microsoft enables a personalized view of all team news published to users right on their SharePoint home in Office 365 (click the SharePoint tile within the Office 365 app launcher). News is easy to read from across the sites they are active in, sites they follow, as well as other news suggested by the intelligence of Microsoft Graph.

At the top of SharePoint home, you will now see News from sites. It’s easy to see what the news is, where it’s coming from, how it’s trending – and you’re one-click away from reading the article in it full fidelity, no matter what operating system or browser you are using. And to see all your news, simply click See all to go to the dedicated, personalized news rollup page.

SharePoint home with team news.jpg

News from sites now appears at the top of SharePoint home in Office 365

With the addition of team news, SharePoint home evolves into an intuitive, single location to see what’s happening in all your sites and portals, perform enterprise-wide search, create new sites — and now read all the news around you.

Learn more about how to find news, sites and portals in Office 365.

Use the Quick Links web part to put your content front and center [ New ]

Marcel

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Use-the-Quick-Links-web-part-to-put-your-content-front-and/m-p/45258

Don’t bury your lead – put important stuff right up front for your site visitors. The Quick Links web part allows you to add visibility to the most important content you create – with the ability to adjust and curate as you go.

We’re pleased to announce a small but important improvement we’ve made to the Quick Links web part.  You can now adjust the image that represents your link inside Quick Links cards.  This often-requested update will be available to use in this web part on all modern pages.

Let’s say you’ve been using Quick Links on your modern team site home page to showcase important team resources – it might look something like this:quick links.png

 

If you want to swap out the default images with something that’s more visually engaging, or more appropriate in the context of your site, find the tile you want to change, and select Edit:

quick links edit.png

This brings up the edit pane, where you can change the link’s title, or its image:

quick links edit pane.png

You can upload an image, or use one that’s already in your site.  You might wind up with something that looks like this:

quick links new images.png

We hope that this feature will help you create more beautiful, engaging SharePoint sites.  As always, we would love to hear your feedback.  How can we continue to improve this web part, and all our modern web parts, to best meet your needs now and in the future?