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Copper Contributor

Mar 18, 2017

Modern team site - How to set Root Site Collection to modern Team Site

Hello, in the SP Admin center I already set set the new experience. And if I create a new Site Collection the design gives my also the modern team sites. But how can I set my root site collec...

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Jens Christian Balondo

Copper Contributor

Mar 19, 2017

Thank you for your replies.

Both suggestions were also my guess as I describe in my first post. So I deactivated the publishing feature. My Navigation from my Termstore does not displayed anymore and all my libraries and lists changed back to classic design. (I've set them to mordern experience before). The option to create modern "Sites Page" still not an option from the sites pages library.

I deactivate the publishing feature and activate the Site Pages feature:

Then I open the site pages library:

Even though I set in my O365 to modern experience all my libraries and lists have the classic view.

So I manually set to modern experience in the library settings:

Of course the option to create a modern site page still not there but at least I've got the modern experience in this library.

Following questions remain open:

So I can not use modern experience with publishing feature and also managed term store navigation?
How can I use modern experience in my root site collection? (To create a mordern site page from the page library and set it as my startpage)

jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

Mar 19, 2017

I'm also seeing this and It could be intencional or just that someone forgot about it that we cannot create modern SPO pages in this root site collection

Drew Madelung
MVP
Mar 20, 2017
Hmm...no matter if I have publishing enabled/disabled or site pages enabled/disabled I still get the option to create a new "Site Page" in the root site collection in my primary tenant.
- Jens Christian Balondo
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 20, 2017
  You're right. Two tenants, same features (Site Features and Site Collection Features) but .. confused.
  - Jens Christian Balondo
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 08, 2017
    I deactivated the publishing features (Website & Site Collection) then I was able to create a modern team site (from the wiki library or site content) and set them as "my homepage".
    
    But from the settings I still do not have the option..
    
    After I reactivated the publishing features (SC & Site) I do not have the option to create a website (mordern team site) again. But I only need new (mordern) websites for my news (news webpart).
    
    Spoiler
    But on the other way I think the best way is to communicate the SharePoint Portal (https://yourtenantname.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx) as your landing page and open new websites for your departments.
    
    This will be also close to my mobile view if I open the the SharePoint App. ;)