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TarunHCC
Copper Contributor
May 07, 2026

Search Box Scope of Standard sites in SP Online Tenant

Hello All,

I am going to set home site for a SharePoint Online tenant in few days. I will be doing so using the below command

Set-PnPHomeSite -HomeSiteUrl "https://sharepoint.com"

I need to confirm below mentioned query.

  • After setting the home site what will be the behavior of the search bar of a standard SharePoint site, which is not a home site. I am referring to the sites other than home site in the same tenant.

Note: On Microsoft documentation it says the scope of the search bar in the home site will be extended to the whole tenant, which is fine. But the standard site (not the home site) search bar should not have scope of whole tenant.

Please share your thoughts on this and let me know what will be the scope of Standard site search bar.

Thanks in advance.

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1 Reply

  • Surya_Narayana's avatar
    Surya_Narayana
    MCT
    May 09, 2026

    hi TarunHCC​  Setting a Home Site mainly affects the search experience of the Home Site itself, not all other SharePoint sites in the tenant.

    So after configuring the Home Site using:

    Set-PnPHomeSite -HomeSiteUrl "https://sharepoint.com"

    the expected behavior is:

    The Home Site search bar will search across the entire tenant (organization-wide search)

    A standard SharePoint site (non-home site) will continue to use its normal search scope

    So standard sites will still typically search:

    The current site

    Or the connected Hub scope (if the site is associated to a Hub)

    They do not automatically become tenant-wide search sites just because a Home Site was configured.

    So your understanding is correct only the Home Site gets the tenant-wide search experience by default.