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Let's start by talking about the modern

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SharePoint information architecture. As

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you probably know, there's lots of talks

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those days about modern SharePoint. Modern

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SharePoint was introduced in 2015 and the

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first type of site to be introduced was a

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modern team site. Since then, Microsoft

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released more stuff inside, but only in

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2018 Microsoft released the missing piece

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in information architecture called hub

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sites. Those days most organizations are

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building on modern SharePoint, as

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Microsoft is not making any new

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investments on classic SharePoint at all

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and there's no specific date yet, but it

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will eventually go away. Let's first look

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at how the information architecture was

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done for the last 15 years in SharePoint.

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We had site collections, and under site

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collections we had sub‑sites, which in

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turn could have other sub‑sites

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underneath. Between site collections and

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sub‑sites underneath, the permissions,

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navigation, and branding can all be

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inherited, so meaning that if you want to,

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of course, you can have consistency across

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that site collection. If we look at an

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Internet example, we would have, for

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example, an intranet work site collection

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with three sub‑sites underneath called

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Marketing, IT, and HR. An under HR, we

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could have to sub‑sites, Policies and

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Managers, and managers can have their

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permission inheritance broken while

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keeping branding and navigation. Classic

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SharePoint had a ton of available

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templates from team sites, publishing

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sites, to more specialized ones like

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document workspace, enterprise wiki,

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records center, and more. Now let's talk

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about modern. With modern SharePoint, the

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goal is to really cut down sub‑sites and

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only have site collections. A site

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collection can also be registered or

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promoted to a hub site, and then you can

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link other site collections to it. By

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linking multiple site collections to a hub

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site, navigation and branding will be

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inherited from the hub site, so the

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experience across sites will be similar.

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However, permissions are still completely

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independent between site collection, so

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each site collection has independent

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permissions. So with the modern intranet,

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every department site, let's say, is a

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site collection, which can have the same

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or different permissions than the parent

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hub. By having everything as a site

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collection, you also have less chances of

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hitting the limits of SharePoint Online

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since each site is really a site

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collection. And because it's all site

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collections, it's also very flexible. So

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let's say that in this example, if the NA

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sales organization moves from under the

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North American division to under the Sales

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division, you can simply detach it from

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the current hub and attach it to another

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hub. It's super simple and as soon as it's

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attached to the Sales hub, it's

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automatically inherited the branding and

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navigation from the Sales hub. And you

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don't have to do any real migration as you

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would have to do if it was a sub‑site.

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Because all the content remains in the

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site collection, simply detached from the

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NA hub, attach it to the Sales hub, and

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that is it. With modern SharePoint, we

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also greatly simplified the templates. We

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only really have templates, team site and

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communication site. However, there are two

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types of team sites. First of all, you

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have a modern, standalone team site, as

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well as a team site connected to an Office

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365 group. So what is an Office 365 group?

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An Office 365 group is a collection of

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Office 365 resources that our integrated

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to make collaboration easier. Each Office

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365 group comes with a shared inbox, a

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SharePoint site, a planner plan and

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optionally a Microsoft team. When you

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create a group connected team site, it

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will create for you all of the other

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resources. But if you create a team site

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without an Office 365 group, you can

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always connect an Office 365 group around

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it later, no problem, and you'll often see

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the term groupified when we reference to

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this action. So you're going to groupify

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team site. Just a quick note on Office 365

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groups, this course will really focus on

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managing SharePoint Online, but there will

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soon be a course on Pluralsight, and maybe

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by the time you watch this course it's

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already out there, called Configuring and

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Managing Microsoft Teams and Office 365

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Groups, that will really focus on the

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managing of Office 365 groups. But this

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course we're really only going to focus on

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SharePoint. Also, a note about hub sites.

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Hub sites are not a site template. You

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cannot go into new and create a new hub

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site. They are a modern team site or

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communication site that is registered as a

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hub. This can be done via PowerShell or

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via the SharePoint Admin Center. Also,

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something that I want to note is that

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traditionally we have used the term site

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collection and sub‑site as terms for

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SharePoint. And often when we talked about

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site, it only meant sub‑site. That is

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changing, and Microsoft is now using the

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term site instead of site collections,

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since we're not supposed to use sub‑sites

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anymore. So from now on, instead of site

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collection, I will follow Microsoft's

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naming convention, and I will use the word

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site when referring to site collections,

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but I will be honest with you, after 10

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years of using SharePoint and 10 years of

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using site collection as the term, it

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might slip one or two times in the course,

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despite my best intentions. But just so

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you know, site collections are now

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referred to as sites. Really, when I will use sites, it will mean site collections.