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Setting a site with web template STS#3 as the home site
Our root site collection is a modern team site, with the web template id of STS#3. We would like to set this as the Home Site. That way, when staff click on the SharePoint app tile, they will be take...
- Unfortunately no workaround, once a site is create, the template used behind the scenes cannot be changed
Unfortunately no workaround, once a site is create, the template used behind the scenes cannot be changed
Thanks Juan. Out of curiosity, do you know what prevents an STS#3 site from being converted to a Communications site?
- Hi Ivan,
It's by design, once you create a SPO site with a base template, you cannot convert to a different template...but coming back to modernizing a site (Note: Modernizing is not converting), Microsoft only provides support to convert classic SPO sites into modern ones using PowerShell: https://global-sharepoint.com/sharepoint-online/convert-classic-team-site-to-communication-site-in-sharepoint-online/