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Pre Follow SharePoint Sites
Good Day As we onboard new employees we would like in having a pre-defined number of SharePoint Online sites selected already on behalf of the user on his/her site Follow list. Is there a way th...
I believe this is not possible because the Follow action is done under the context of the current user: https://docs.microsoft.com/es-es/sharepoint/dev/general-development/how-to-follow-documents-sites-and-tags-by-using-the-rest-service-in-sharepoint-2
You can do it as a server side event receiver for onprem but it's not possible in SharePoint Online.
In SharePoint Online there is a Featured Links section on the SharePoint Home page(https://mydomain.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx). As an admin You can add Site links to that area and the links will show up for everyone.
Thanks