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SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide

By : Patrick Tucker
Book Image

SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide

By: Patrick Tucker

Overview of this book

After opening a toolbox full of tools, it can initially be hard to know which is the right one for the job – which tool works best and when. Showing you how to create an informed and purposeful plan for SharePoint Online in the context of the Microsoft 365 suite of tools is what this book is all about. SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide will help you understand all you can do with SharePoint. Whether the tools are new to you or you’ve used the older versions in the past, your journey will start by learning about the building blocks. This book is not a step-by-step guide; there are tons of online resources to give you that and to help you better keep up with the pace of change. This book is a planning guide, helping you with the context, capabilities, and considerations for implementing SharePoint Online in the most successful way possible. Whether you need to plan a new intranet, migrate files to a modern platform, or take advantage of tools such as Power Platform, Teams, and Planner, this guide will help you get to grips with the technology, ask the right questions to build your plan, and successfully implement it from the technical and user adoption perspectives. By the end of this Microsoft book, you’ll be able to perceive the toolbox as a whole and efficiently prepare a planning and governance document for use in your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1:From Farm to Cloud
5
Part 2:From Lone Wolf to Pack Leader – SPO Integrations with M365
9
Part 3:From Tall to Flat – SPO Information Architecture
13
Part 4:From Current to Change

Hubs and global navigation

One of the benefits that hubs provide is a consistent set of navigation links across the top of all sites associated with the hub. Those links that may be displayed are editable by the hub site owner and are automatically reflected across the entire hub. This may take a few minutes to apply. The only link that automatically gets added is to the hub site itself so that we always have a breadcrumb to get back to the parent home page. We can set an image and title for that link, or we can remove it altogether, as seen in the following screen capture:

Figure 7.9 – Hub site settings for the logo and title of the hub navigation link

We can have up to 2,000 hub sites in our organization’s tenant. We’ve seen that we can connect multiple hubs to share searching, but the navigation will be different for each hub and within each associated hub as well. While it makes sense to have this flexibility, there may be certain links...