Can a root site be set as home site?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/home-site Paced through the steps but was ultimately denied. Any other ideas? PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Set-SPOHomeSite -HomeSiteUrl https://tenant.s...

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icelava

Mar 13, 2021

Looks like the underlying SharePoint admin API does not like that it's a hub site.

After de-registering as hub, the root site can be set.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Set-SPOHomeSite -HomeSiteUrl https://tenant.sharepoint.com

Confirm
Before you set a Home site, make sure you review the documentation at https://aka.ms/homesites. Continue?
[Y] Yes [N] No [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"): y

Value
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The Home site has been set to https://tenant.sharepoint.com. It may take some time for the change to apply. Ch...

Can't see any update to my SharePoint mobile app yet. (UPDATE: It appears now.)

Quite frankly though, I cannot fathom the reason why a hub site cannot be set as a home site.

Andrew Hodges

Bronze Contributor

Mar 11, 2021

icelava

Is the root site a communications site and you haven't associated the root site with a Hub?

icelava
Brass Contributor
Mar 11, 2021
The site was classic and has been updated to communication site. It is a hub site for the company intranet.
- jcgonzalezmartin
  MVP
  Mar 11, 2021
  I think the problem is that the root site is not a Communication Site...you have modernized it for sure, but it's not a communication site behind the scenes
  - icelava
    Brass Contributor
    Mar 12, 2021
    jcgonzalezmartin So Enable-SPOCommsite was not good enough?

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