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Nicolas_Houdeville
Copper Contributor
Mar 04, 2020

Sharepoint Classic Home Site automatic migration into Modern Communication Site

Hello all,

 

I am currently trying to implement SharePoint in the company and I went through a lot of research lately.

While our SharePoint site is accessible to only a few people for the purpose of testing, this is almost empty. However, the homepage has been created almost a year ago under a Classic Team Site. I would like to migrate to a modern Communication Site, which is supposed to be done automatically if all requirements from MS are well followed (STS#0, no text, no Webparts others than default one, ...). I think I did follow all of them, but still, the home does not seem to have changed. 

Any idea about what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help

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  • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
    jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Mar 04, 2020
    What's the procedure you are following? By the way, I assume you are aware that you are just modernizing the site and not converting it into a communcation site, right?
    • Nicolas_Houdeville's avatar
      Nicolas_Houdeville
      Copper Contributor
      Mar 04, 2020

      jcgonzalezmartin I just found the web page : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/disable-auto-modernization-classic-home-pages

       

      The classic home page I'm trying to update is currently my root page. Is that a problem? Is there something I misunderstood here? 

      I believe that after the update the page should look like any other modern communication site. Isn't it?

      • Nicolas_Houdeville's avatar
        Nicolas_Houdeville
        Copper Contributor
        Mar 10, 2020

        Hi all,

        Since my root site was empty, I did not bother going further into that idea. I created another Communication Site to make it my modern root site.

        Thanks jcgonzalezmartin for the help.

        From what I understood this feature may be disabled for the moment.

         

        Brgds

         

         

    • Nicolas_Houdeville's avatar
      Nicolas_Houdeville
      Copper Contributor
      Mar 04, 2020

      jcgonzalezmartin Well at the moment I'm trying to get to the page where the instructions were. I had to leave work in hurry yesterday and shutdown my computer quite quick. Nothing in history so I am just trying to google it as I previously did. 

      But from what I recall it was from Microsoft, late February or early March of this year, and it was explained that classic root team site will be converted to modern communication site but only with some requirements. I followed them, but nothing happened until now.

      I'll update you with the url if I find it.

      Thanks for your help