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TarunHCC
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May 07, 2026
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Search Box Scope of Standard sites in SP Online Tenant

Hello All, I am going to set home site for a SharePoint Online tenant in few days. I will be doing so using the below command Set-PnPHomeSite -HomeSiteUrl "https://sharepoint.com" I need to co...
  • Surya_Narayana's avatar
    May 09, 2026

    hi TarunHCC​  Setting a Home Site mainly affects the search experience of the Home Site itself, not all other SharePoint sites in the tenant.

    So after configuring the Home Site using:

    Set-PnPHomeSite -HomeSiteUrl "https://sharepoint.com"

    the expected behavior is:

    The Home Site search bar will search across the entire tenant (organization-wide search)

    A standard SharePoint site (non-home site) will continue to use its normal search scope

    So standard sites will still typically search:

    The current site

    Or the connected Hub scope (if the site is associated to a Hub)

    They do not automatically become tenant-wide search sites just because a Home Site was configured.

    So your understanding is correct only the Home Site gets the tenant-wide search experience by default.