This blog post talks about where Hub sites started and what is possible at this moment. Should you at the end of the post still have questions don't hesitate to ask me or my colleagues from Portiva.
Let's start at the beginning, last year during the Ignite 2017 the Hub sites were announced by Microsoft. Hub sites are a new building block for your intranet enabling sites, news and activity to be bought together, simplifying search and to create shared navigation and look-and-feel.
With the introduction of Modern Team and Communication sites the intranet made a transition from Site collections with a lot of sub-sites to only site collections with pages. However keeping an overview of all the different site collections is a difficult thing to manage. This is where the Hub sites come in, enabling you to join sites together. The workplace has become very dynamic and ever changing, with Hub sites it's much easier to organize your intranet to adapt to the ever-changing workplace.
Hub sites have become available world wide since last week (7th of May). Check-out some cool features for the hub sites.
Note: at this moment it's only possible to have 50! Hub sites in your Office 365 tenant, so think about how you're going to use them.
For the administrators there are some cool things to keep in mind.
A great feature to get those sites combined together and give a clear overview of what is going on across the different projects or departments. Connecting a site to a Hub is very easy making it a great option for business users to move theirs sites around when changing teams or projects. I’ve already heard multiple cases where clients are asking for a solution like this. Can’t wait till it’s General available (GA).
Provision sites to a hub site: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/site-design-overview
Creating a Hub site: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/features/hub-site/create-hub-site-with-powershell
PowerShell commands Hub sites: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/features/hub-site/hub-site-powershell
Organize your intranet with SharePoint hub sites: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/Organize-your-intranet-with-SharePoint-hub-sites/ba-p/174081
Hub site introduction (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgeYRrKB5U8