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"Modern" News link appearing across all our team sites
A new link has appeared on the Quick Launch across all our "classic" team sites called News.
This brings the user to a modern look page where they can create new "modern" pages.
Does anyone know how I can disable this across all team sites easily?
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We are seeing this too and this is a bit confusing for our users. Also our sites are all in finnish but this one title is in english "News" when its should be "Uutiset".. now it looks quite bad! It would be nice to have some control over this.. hide it for a while or at least to have a way to change the title's language.
You can use the below PowerShell PnP script to remove "News" navigation from all Site Collections and sub-sites.
$o365=Get-Credential Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://<tenantname>-admin.sharepoint.com -Credentials $o365 function fixupNavigation ($web,$url) { Remove-PnPNavigationNode -Title News -Location QuickLaunch -Force Write-Host $Url ": News Removed" $subwebs=$web.Webs $context.Load($subwebs) $context.ExecuteQuery() foreach ($subweb in $subwebs) { Connect-PnPOnline -Url $subweb.Url -Credentials $o365 $context=get-pnpcontext $subconweb=$context.Web fixupNavigation $subconweb $subweb.Url } } $Allsites=Get-PnPTenantSite foreach ($Allsite in $Allsites) { Connect-pnpOnline -Url $Allsite.Url -Credentials $o365 $context=get-pnpcontext $web=$context.Web fixupNavigation $web $Allsite.Url }No showing on our prod tenant sites which is NOT 1st release
Hello,
yes, this 'News link' also appeared in our tenant.
we are very classic and basic with layout and features and now all users are surprised with that feature.
We have some thousands subsites - it's not possible to remove that again manually.
I've also not found any central switch (on site feature level nor sharepoint-admin-center) to disable that...
yes, new features are cool, but as an admin I'd like to have control when and where new features are implemented...
BR Stefan
We've opened a Premier support ticket regarding this. The advice was to disable a new setting in the SharePoint admin center as per https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Allow-or-prevent-creation-of-site-pages-by-end-users-c41d9cc8-c5c0-46b4-8b87-ea66abc6e63b?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
However 14 hours later this has made no difference.
Thank you very much for the update, Richard.
The advice, anyway, makes no much sense, IMHO: why, in first place, is the link called "News"?
Is it possible that this Navigation Link points to the news.aspx page? If I remember correctly the older versions of SharePoint had the option to a every new page to the left navigation menu.
Just speculating though.
Yes just see it in client demo site that I created a few weeks ago. It doesn't have a page title either. You can delete it in Navigation in site settings for the Quick Launch. But I wouldn't like to be doing that for multiple sites.
Seeing this too, some sites have it some don't.
How can this be disabled?
As admin on selective FR I can see content on the news pages, while a regular user not on FR can see the link but cannot see content on the News page.
I hope this is a glitch in the system which will be fixed asap!
Where exactly? Can you please share a screenshot?
Here is a screen shot:
It lets you create Modern pages in the SitePages library.
Not there for me...
Mmm..I don't recall to read/heard about this feature...but I know this is something we have in the SharePoint App (I currently have in my Android SharePoint App)...adding some folks that can comment on this: Mark-Kashman ssquires Chris McNulty
