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ROLLING OUT: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups & Pages
MicrosoftJoe, are you asking if if all team sites that exist today will end up looking like brand new team site + groups provisioned in the new way?
We won’t ever replace your existing customized classic pages with modern pages. We want to offer the new homepage as an option, especially for team sites that haven’t customized their homepage. We don’t have a plan for “upgrading” or “converting” classic pages with classic web parts into modern pages – that’s upgrading content and is basically impossible. You can always create a modern page inside any team site, put the Quick links and Activity web parts on it, and enjoy the benefits of the new homepage :)
"Modern team sites” aren't a radically new thing. They’re just team sites, with more and more of the apps inside sporting new modern experiences – homepage, pages, documents, lists, site contents, and more coming. Every team site that exists today is a “modern team site” because of the modern experiences we’ve already shipped.
My sites aren't highly customized beyond some web parts I don't even need. Some of my templated sites are already using the modern libraries and lists, but I like the new "modern" home page to bring the look and navigation together. Right now, the home page (and settings pages) look completely different from the lists and libraries. I'd like to stop that.
Further, I'm rebuilding all my sites right now (I'm about a year into our rollout, and have learned a lot / need to adapt). What I really need is the ability to generate the full "modern" build including home page. If that includes creating a group, I'll create a group. No problem there. I think there just needs to be more documentation as to what is changing, what is staying the same, and what paths (SharePoint Admin, Subsites, O365 Groups) lead to the same place.
Thanks.
- LincolnDeMaris
Makes sense.
For the time being, the easiest way to do what you want is to just create a new modern page, add the Quick Links and Activity web parts to it (or any other web parts!) and set that as the homepage of your site using the "Make Homepage" command in the Pages library. Give that a try when the new bits hit your environment and let us know how it goes.
- We're first release, so I'll start checking tomorrow!
- LincolnDeMaris
Rollout will begin next week.