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SharePoint hub permissions and inheritance

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SharePoint hub permissions and inheritance

How permissions work for hub sites and their associated sites — what's shared, what isn't, and what to watch out for.

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What hub association shares

When a site associates to a hub, it inherits:

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Why this matters

A common misconception: "the hub is private to a group, so the associated sites are private too." False — each site's access is determined by its own permissions.

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Audience targeting in hubs

For navigation that should show different items to different audiences, audience targeting in hub navigation lets you scope individual nav links:

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Hub-level access governance

For hubs themselves:

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Common operational issues

### "Why can users see this hub but not access the site?"

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Hub disassociation

Sites can disassociate from a hub — voluntarily by the site owner, or by the SharePoint Admin. On disassociation:

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Best practices

For organisations using hubs to organise SharePoint at scale, treating each site's permissions as independent — and using audience targeting where filtering is needed — produces cleaner governance. Trying to bend the hu…

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