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Sharepoint Landing Page is a Team Site, Company wants to switch to a Communication Site
So you need to be SharePoint admin,
Go in to SharePoint Admin Center and Create a new Communication site (Or reuse the one you have) and then do a Site swap with the root site!
Then go to SharePoint Admin settings and set that site as a Home site, that will make the Communication site the main landing page for the intranet
When I go into Active sites as an Admin, I found the root site and selected "Replace Site". I copied the path to the site I wanted to replace it with. But I keep getting an error that says;
"The new site name is too long using URL https://----------.sharepoint.com/sites/archive-2023-09-08T111053Z. The path for all files and folders in the site cannot exceed 400 characters."
The problem is I'm not choosing that site name, sharepoint is attempting to change the current root site name to that after I try to replace it with the new one. How do I get Sharepoint to stop trying to change it to that name?
I'm guessing you have subsites or files within a long folder structure ? That's usually the culprite! Try moving them to a temporary site and then move them to the new site after the swap!
Avoid using subsites! Make the new home site a hub and those subsites to seperate teams or communication sitesSharePoint will change the name of it, it has to when doing the swap or else it would be conflicting. So it's going for that archived -date and time.
- There is one Subsite connected to the current root site, when I try to move it, I keep getting errors. It looks like their file paths are too long (greater than 200 characters). There are thousands of files and hundreds of folders to go through. Is there and easy way to manage or fix all the file paths to be able to move them?
- You need to copy or move them using the built in feature in SharePoint.
So create a new site with the same name as the subsite and move everything to where it should be located at. This will take a while for the system to move them.
karen_dredske
3. While Number 3 isn't required as it's strongly recommended that you have the root site as the Home-site, both ease of use, structure wise but for underlying features such as search etc.