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"Modern" News link appearing across all our team sites
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"?
It's called News because when it is presented in the content of the landing page of your site, those pages ("articles") show up as News articles. See the example on this blog:
https://blogs.office.com/2016/11/08/create-connected-sharepoint-online-team-sites-in-seconds/
We're seeing this too. We are First release for all users. We also have Modern UI setting to "classic" still in the SharePoint Admin panel.
Hi KevinCrossman, thanks for your reply.
Luckily I don't see this new link in my tenants...
Nevertheless, I think I get what you say but I don't get the logic behind it...
If I understand it well, you have in a "classic" team site a link to a page where you can create "modern" pages which would be visible as News if the team site were a "modern" one, while it is not!
Am I correct?
Thanks for reporting this, Richard. We are looking into this. Will update the thread once we have this figured out.
For the folks that are seeing the link, are your tenants in First Release ?
