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Richard Bourke
Iron Contributor
Dec 05, 2016

"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 k...
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Dec 06, 2016

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

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    Richard Bourke
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 06, 2016

    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.

    • Salvatore Biscari's avatar
      Salvatore Biscari
      Silver Contributor
      Dec 06, 2016

      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"?

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