Now that we've seen the theory, let's go
to the lab and register a site as a hub
site, as well as join a site to a hub
site. We're now in the lab environment, so
let me go to the admin center here. Let's
go into Active sites, and let's go to The
Hub site. We'll search for The Hub. Let's
click on it. And from here, I have the Hub
option that appears, and I can either
register the site as a hub site or
associate it to a hub. So let's register
it as a hub. So Hub name, we'll let it be
at The Hub. And who can associate? Let's
add Vlad Catrinescu, as well as John
Smith, and we'll click on Save. Actually,
before clicking on Save, I want to show
you the changes that are made, so let me
just open the site so we have a look at it
here right now. So, as you can see, it's a
normal communication site, and there is
nothing between the logo and the title and
the SharePoint blue bar at the top. So let
me go back here. Let's go back to Register
as a hub site. I will re-add Vlad, as well
as John Smith, and now I will click on
Save. It will take a few seconds for the
registration to be done. And the first
thing that we will see, and I will refresh
the page, you'll see in global navigation
will have appeared right here above the
logo and the title. And this becomes my
hub navigation. Before we associate a site
to The Hub, let's just change the branding
for this site. So let me go into Settings,
let's go into Change the look, and we're
going to change the theme to be green.
That makes a big difference, so we're
going to just stick with this one. This
way we really see how the branding is
inherited when we connect a site to a hub.
Now let me go into another site. So let me
clean this, and we have a site called
Drones at Globomantics. I will just go in
the URL here. I think it's a normal
communication site. Has a bit of its own
branding. As you can see, it's a bit dark
and has the links in a different color.
Now, from the admin center, what I will do
is I will associate the site with a hub,
and let's select The Hub. The Hub will be
the hub that we just created, and we're
going to click on Save. After the site is
joined to The Hub, it will get the same
navigation and branding as The Hub site.
It might not be instant. In this case, as
you see it was instant, don't worry if
it's not instant. It might take up to 30
minutes until it's done, but you're slowly
going to see stuff appearing. Now let me
click on The Hub. This brings me back to
The Hub. Navigation is not managed
automatically. Everything is manual, but
as you can see, it's pretty easy to
associate a site to The Hub, as well as to
register The Hub. Now that as site is
associated, if I want to, I can change The
Hub association. So I can say that this
site might not be associated to a hub
anymore, or let's say I want it associate
it to the CustomSite hub. When I do that,
the content will still be there, nothing
from the content will have changed;
however, the branding and navigation will
slowly change. And I'm not in the right
link there, so that's why nothing changed.
But if we go back toward Drone at
Globomantics, still has the old branding.
Let's go see what the CustomSite looks
like. It still has the old branding. It
might take 30 minutes for it to change;
however, my navigation updated right away.
If I want to deregister a hub, maybe The
Hub will now just be a part of another hub
site or I just don't want it to be a hub
site anymore, I can go into toolbar under
Hub and simply unregistered as a hub site.
It will tell me that all of the sites
associated with it will be disassociated,
which is okay, and it will take a few
seconds or minutes, and it will be done.
It'll be back to regular communication
site without the global navigation at the
top. Now, if we want to do the same thing
via PowerShell, we have the cmdlets here.
So if we want to register The Hub as a hub
site, we can simply Register-SPOHubSite,
give it the site that we want to register
as a hub. We can add permissions as well,
so I may be want to add Ben King. And I
think the username I got it wrong here.
Let me just put ben@ globomantics.org,
give Ben permission to join sites. And
then if I want to connect a site to The
Hub, I simply do the
Add-SPOHubSiteAssociation PowerShell
cmdlet, the site that I want to add, as
well as the URL of The Hub site. This is
it for this demo in which we have a looked
at how to register a site as a hub site,
join other sites to it through the admin
center, as well as through PowerShell. We
have slightly looked at the navigation in
this demo, but now let's go back to the
slides and talk a bit more about The Hub navigation.