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# How to manage the SharePoint Hub Sites associations
- URL: https://blog.lsonline.fr/2021/10/08/how-to-manage-the-sharepoint-hub-sites-associations/
- Published: 2021-10-08T14:41:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T11:46:41.000Z
- Description: How to associate a SharePoint Hub site with another one? What does that mean? How to manage them? Here, some information about that
- Author: Laurent Sittler
- Tags: Adoption, Getting Started, Governance, Microsoft 365, Modern Experience, SharePoint, SharePoint Online

Are you waiting for it? We are, too? The capability to associate a SharePoint Hub Site with another one. The good news is, the PowerShell cmdlet has existed for a couple of weeks now (at least):

> The cmdlet to join a [#SharePoint](https://twitter.com/hashtag/SharePoint?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=blog.lsonline.fr) hub to another hub exists, but it does not work on my environment ? I can’t wait ??‍♂️[https://t.co/TxLS4v0oDJ](https://t.co/TxLS4v0oDJ?ref=blog.lsonline.fr) [#Microsoft365](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Microsoft365?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=blog.lsonline.fr) [#Office365](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Office365?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=blog.lsonline.fr)
> 
> — Laurent Sittler (@laul0\_68) [September 9, 2021](https://twitter.com/laul0%5F68/status/1436039253704810501?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=blog.lsonline.fr)

and now, the cmdlet works ?? (currently on targeted environment only), and moreover, the SharePoint central admin allows us to manage the parent hubs too!

## What is a Hub Site?

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2021/10/LsOnline-Diagrams-SPHubSites.drawio-1.png)

SharePoint Hub sites concept

In short, a SharePoint hub site creates a relation between several SharePoint sites that brings you the capabilities to:

- Have a "**global navigation**" between the associated sites in addition to the navigation per site
- Enforce a **site theme** for the associated site
- **Scope the data** across the associated sites
- Perform **research scoped across the associated sites**
- **Sync Hub permissions** (visitors only) to associated sites

> \[note\] **Note**  
>  
> A tenant can host up to 2,000 hub sites max

For more information, everything is well explained by Microsoft here:

[What is a SharePoint hub site?![](https://support.microsoft.com/apple-touch-icon.png)![](https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/762ddbe4-1240-4dbb-98af-d496c67339b3.png)](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-is-a-sharepoint-hub-site-fe26ae84-14b7-45b6-a6d1-948b3966427f?ref=blog.lsonline.fr)

## What does a parent Hub site mean?

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2021/10/LsOnline-Diagrams-SPHubToHubSites.drawio-2.png)

SharePoint Hub site with a parent hub site

In theory (because while I am writing these lines, nothing changes), this kind of association should only:

- **Scope the data** across the associated sites
- Perform **research scoped across the associated sites**

## How to associate a Hub Site with another one?

The parent hub association can be created only from the SharePoint admin center or via PowerShell cmdlet.

### PowerShell

Before you begin, you must ensure that you have the following prerequisites:

- The latest version of the [SharePoint Online Management Shell](https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=35588&ref=blog.lsonline.fr)
- An account that has SharePoint admin credentials
- Two SharePoint sites are registered as Hub sites

Based on the above SharePoint sites schema, we have two Hub sites with the following information:

| Site Name | URL                | ID                                   |
| --------- | ------------------ | ------------------------------------ |
| Intranet  | /sites/intranet    | 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 |
| HR        | /sites/intranet-hr | 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002 |

> \[success\] **Tip**  
>  
> To retrieve your SharePoint site Id, from your favorite browser, use the REST API URL `/sites/intranet/_api/sites/id`

With this information in mind, we can now associate these two Hub sites - the intranet as the parent hub and HR as "sub-hub":

```PowerShell
Add-SPOHubToHubAssociation -Source 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002 -Target 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001
```

Associate a SharePoint Hub site to another one

If for any reason, you need to disassociate a sub-hub, you can use the following cmdlet:

```PowerShell
Remove-SPOHubToHubAssociation -HubSiteId 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002
```

Remove a Hub sites association

### SharePoint central admin

From the SharePoint central admin, follow these steps to associate an existing Hub site to a parent Hub site:

1. Select the SharePoint "sub-hub site" from the "Active sites" list
2. Select the **Hub** tab
3. Click on **Edit hub site settings**
4. Select the parent hub site association
5. Click **Save**

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-05-at-14.44.06.png)

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-05-at-10.24.57.png)

SharePoint admin center - Hub site settings

### Result

From the SharePoint parent Hub site, you can see:

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-05-at-14.52.56.png)

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-05-at-14.53.00.png)

SharePoint parent hub site settings panel

From the SharePoint sub-hub site, you can see:

![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-05-at-14.52.49.png)

Focus on parent hub site settings

If you need more information about planning SharePoint hub sites in your environment:

- [Planning your SharePoint hub sites - SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/planning-hub-sites?ref=blog.lsonline.fr)
  
  
Hoping this post will help you ?