Summary

We learned how sites are a key part of SharePoint’s information architecture. When implementing intranet portals, it’s important to design how many sites and hub sites are needed, how site associations are configured, and whether there is a need to group hub sites together (always keeping clarity in mind). We later saw why the role of the SharePoint home site and other organizations’ news sources need to be defined. Each site needs an owner; responsibility can be centralized for specific people or distributed, but it’s important that owners understand their responsibilities.

In the last part, we observed how the sites and channel sites that are connected to Microsoft Teams channels are commonly accessed from the Files tab in Teams, and users might not use SharePoint’s user experience at all when using Teams’ teams. Permissions for these sites are managed using team owners, members, and guests.

Administrators have a key role in...