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AndrewX
Iron Contributor
Dec 18, 2017

Restore SharePoint.aspx homepage

How do we restore /_layouts/15/Sharepoint.aspx as the default home page after changing it to something else?
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ReinoutSegers
Copper Contributor
Dec 18, 2017
As far as I know, it is not possible to change the default homepage for the SharePoint tile. Just to be sure, from the Office 365 portal when you click the SharePoint tile, it brings you to a custom home page and now you want it changed back to /_layouts/15/Sharepoint.aspx ?
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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Dec 18, 2017
Reinout is totally correct...you cannot change sharepoint.aspx as default home page for your SPO tenant
  • AndrewX's avatar
    AndrewX
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 18, 2017
    We currently have another page set as Home. When we type domain.sharepoint.com we are taken to our custom home page.

    I want users to be taken to Sharepoint.aspx instead.
    • ReinoutSegers's avatar
      ReinoutSegers
      Copper Contributor
      Dec 19, 2017

      When users type in the domain directly (https://<domain>.sharepoint.com) they are taken to the homepage of the portal site, not SharePoint.aspx. This is the default behaviour of SharePoint Online.

       

      Unfortunately, you cannot set the homepage to SharePoint.aspx using the GUI or CSOM/PnP. To achieve something similar, you'll have to turn on scripting, built a JavaScript redirect webpart in a different page and set that as the homepage.

       

      To change the homepage of the portal site, head over to: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Change-the-home-page-on-a-SharePoint-classic-site-35A5022C-F84A-455D-985E-C691AB5DFA17 

      • Norman Young's avatar
        Norman Young
        MVP
        Mar 15, 2019

         

        Hi AndrewX,

         

        Using SharePoint Designer you can add HTML redirect code to the root site landing page to point to the SharePoint.aspx page. 

         

        I hope this helps.

         

        Norm

    • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
      jcgonzalezmartin
      MVP
      Dec 18, 2017
      How did you manage to set a default SPO page different that the SPO landing page provided by Microsoft?
      • AndrewX's avatar
        AndrewX
        Iron Contributor
        Dec 19, 2017
        I guess what i am describing is what Reinout said, namely that when i go to https://<domain>.sharepoint.com i am taken to my portal site, where i wish i would be taken to SharePoint.aspx. If this is not possible then case closed.

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