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What is SharePoint Hub Site? Hub sites are new intranet building blocks in office 365 (only no OnPremise support yet, not even SP2019).  In the new flat world of modern SharePoint, each unit of work gets a separate site collection. Hub sites allow us to eliminate the inflexibility and governance limitations of “dreaded” subsites, while providing a way to replicate one of the key benefits of subsites — a way to create a shared experience among related sites. Hub sites can help kill subsites, but not without a little planning. Modern SharePoint has given users power to create multiple types of sites, Team Site, Communication sites and Hub sites . A lot of people really gets confused about all three. I'll briefly sum up the three  Team site :  Collaborate  with members of a project or organizational team Communication site :  Communicate  to a broad group of people or the entire organization Hub site :  Connect  related sites to create a s...

Microsoft Azure provides a lot of options to deploy your applications to Cloud. In this article we will discuss about two of the hosting options provided by Azure: Azure App Services Azure Cloud Services Both of the options supports web applications and background service type applications. We will discuss about both of the options and then sum up with comparison between two. Azure App Services (or just Web Apps) Azure app service is a PAAS offering from Microsoft to host your web applications in fully managed set of VM's in a dedicated or Shared mode. There are 4 types of App services:- Web App - used for hosting websites and web applications (previously Azure Websites) API App - used  for hosting REST APIs Logic App – used to build automated scalable workflows that integrate apps and data across cloud services and on-premises systems. Mobile Backends - used for hosting mobile app back ends (previously delivered by Azure Mobile services) Azure C...