Forum Discussion
How to make my top level root site a "Modern team site"?
I had the same initial question as in this thread which was what to do about my tenant root site being on the classic template.
I wanted to use the hub site feature and it was recommended that I select a communication site or a team site that uses the modern template to create my hub site, so I created a communication site and then had a friend use Powershell to turn that site it into a hub site. Now I have about 20 different site collections for different projects and corporate functions and they are all associated with that hub site. It is all working fine except for the annoying thing that the main URL of my root site http://companyname.sharepoint.com takes people to that blank classic site.
a) I want to hide that root site so nobody finds it via search or 'suggested sites' etc. (I'd also like to hide my content hub publishing site too) Can I do that with permissions? I'm afraid if I remove permissions from that site it will mess up permissions to my other collections since it is the root site.
b) I want to either change the URL of my Hub site from
https://companyname.sharepoint.com/sites/companyname to http://companyname.sharepoint.com? Or perhaps I could somehow redirect that url to my hub site which is our real 'home'?
What do the experts around here think I should I do? Advice gratefully received.
- Hi All,
Did anyone found a solution for changing the SharePoint Online root site collection from the default classic team site to a new modern team site/hub created later ?
Thanks.Unfortunately it is not possible (yet).
If you are part of a very big company, it makes sense that the toplevel is to large to be one comprehensive team. But if your company is like only four people, it doesn't make sense to make seperate teams between those four people.
So Microsoft: take small companies in consideration and allow the whole company to function as one team with one SharePoint site at the top level.
