-> Azure AD Powershell is planned for deprecation on March 30, 2024. To learn more, read the [deprecation update](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-blog/important-azure-ad-graph-retirement-and-powershell-module/ba-p/3848270).

-> We recommend migrating to [Microsoft Graph PowerShell](/powershell/microsoftgraph/overview) to interact with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD). Microsoft Graph PowerShell allows access to all Microsoft Graph APIs and is available on PowerShell 7. For answers to common migration queries, see the [Migration FAQ](/powershell/azure/active-directory/migration-faq).

-description: "Learn how to organize and label your content and how your visitors interact with the content to get work done"

-Information architecture covers 6 main elements that relate to way finding in SharePoint:

-**Organization intranet owner(s)** ΓÇô The organizational intranet owner(s) consist of a mix of decision-makers and job functions to manage the overall direction and coordination of your organization's intranet. Organizational intranet owners work with business owners (departments) and IT admins to establish global and hub level navigation. Organizational intranet owners will spend most of their time working on planning and implementing global and hub level navigation.

-**Content consumers** ΓÇô Content consumers are not represented in the counts as anyone who is using and viewing content throughout the three levels of navigation. Intranet owners, departmental business owners, hub owners, and site owners should regularly engage with content consumer ΓÇô especially during the planning process ΓÇô to ensure the right content is findable and usable.

-In the modern SharePoint experience, subsites aren't recommended. In the new ΓÇ£flatΓÇ¥ world of modern SharePoint, plan to create one site for each discrete topic, task, or unit of work. This will allow you to easily distribute management and accountability for each content collection and support your ability to move sites around in your navigational architecture without breaking links. Moreover, when a topic is no longer needed, you can easily archive or delete a site with minimal impact.

-The goal of global navigation is to support browsing to content. Since there is limited real estate available for global navigation links, global links generally point to major category navigation pages, sub-links, or a mega menu experience to provide enough information to help viewers find the content they need. Because the context for global navigation must be broad, it's challenging to make the labels both comprehensive and useful. If you plan to implement global navigation, you'll want to test your proposed navigation to make sure that it resonates with users.

-Example: A travel site might have the following local navigation links that support viewers who are exploring the travel site from the perspective of "what am I allowed to do?" as well as viewers who are exploring the travel site from the perspective of the travel process ΓÇô before, during, and after their trip.

-Where youΓÇÖll see local navigation elements:

-One component to modern SharePoint team sites that makes information architecture easier to implement and maintain are [Microsoft 365 groups](/microsoft-365/admin/create-groups/office-365-groups). Microsoft 365 groups provide a membership service that allows for easy hub and site permissions as well as additional functionality for SharePoint team sites and [Microsoft Teams](/microsoftteams/office-365-groups). With Microsoft 365 groups, you can give a group of people access to a collection of collaboration resources like Planner, OneNote, SharePoint team sites, and more. M365 groups can only be used on SharePoint team sites.

-Since we know that most readers do not read every word on a web page or even scroll to the bottom, you need to pay attention to how you present information on each page. Make sure that you put the most important information ΓÇô the information that your readers must have for your communication to be successful ΓÇô at the top of the page. As the page continues, you can add additional information that is helpful, but not crucial. Think of this as writing with your summary or conclusion up front, instead of at the end. Use sections, headings, and bullets to make your pages easier to read. For more info, see [Add sections and columns on SharePoint modern page](https://support.microsoft.com/office/fc491eb4-f733-4825-8fe2-e1ed80bd0899).

-[Audience targeting](https://support.microsoft.com/office/overview-of-audience-targeting-in-modern-sharepoint-sites-68113d1b-be99-4d4c-a61c-73b087f48a81) - Audience targeting helps the most relevant content get to the right audiences. By enabling audience targeting, specific content will be prioritized to specific audiences through SharePoint web parts, page libraries, and navigational links.

-After the site is set up in English, a user with Spanish as their preferred personal language manually edits and translates the title, description, navigation and footer content into Spanish. A user with German as their preferred personal language does the same for German. Once the content is translated, it will display for all users of those preferred languages.

-Folders are another way to organize document content, but folders are a physical construct with limited flexibility. Folders are not necessarily bad ΓÇô they can help you manage performance and security in your document libraries ΓÇô but folder structures with more than one or two levels of nesting create a significant discoverability burden for users and should be avoided. Every site comes with one document library ΓÇô but you are not limited to just one library. Instead of using the one default Documents library on your intranet sites, consider adding topic-specific libraries and add site columns to organize your content within the libraries to avoid creating multiple levels of nested folders.

-Search leverages your information architecture investments to help users find content when they donΓÇÖt know where it might be in your architecture. It also helps users discover content that they may not have known about.

-You can help users discover content and improve search outcomes by leveraging several features in search, including acronyms, bookmarks, Q&A, floor plans, and locations. For more info, see [Make content easy to find](/microsoftsearch/make-content-easy-to-find) and [Search experiences in SharePoint](./get-started-with-modern-search-experience.md).

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