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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...
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"): yValue
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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.
The site was classic and has been updated to communication site. It is a hub site for the company intranet.
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
jcgonzalezmartin So Enable-SPOCommsite was not good enough?
- This doc says that modenizing just adds a few modern features, it doesn't actually turn it into a communication site. Same doc tells you how to create a new comms site and swap out the root
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/modern-root-site#replace-your-root-site
