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Sharepoint Landing Page is a Team Site, Company wants to switch to a Communication Site
How do I create a new Communication Site, and make it the Welcome page? It doesn't look like there is any way to convert the current site to a Communication site. I created a new Communication Page ...
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.
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.
NicolasKheirallah - I agree that the root site is always best being the home site. However. . . it turns out that for features like Search it doesn't matter anymore. It used to automatically turn on Microsoft Search by making the root site a modern site instead of classic. Not anymore. Now, if you have a classic site you get SharePoint search (old search) and if you have a modern site you get Microsoft Search.
My big concern with your suggestion was that this user was about to try to swap their homesite without having migrated the content out of their classic site. You didn't let them know that if they do that their classic site would become an archive site and no one but the SPO Admin would have access to it. It is critical that people know they need to move that content into a new modern site before doing this so that users don't lose access. You can't reverse that process. That could have caused a major problem for their entire organization depending on what is in that site and subsites and how they use it.
My big concern with your suggestion was that this user was about to try to swap their homesite without having migrated the content out of their classic site. You didn't let them know that if they do that their classic site would become an archive site and no one but the SPO Admin would have access to it. It is critical that people know they need to move that content into a new modern site before doing this so that users don't lose access. You can't reverse that process. That could have caused a major problem for their entire organization depending on what is in that site and subsites and how they use it.