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dandelly
Copper Contributor
Aug 24, 2020

Sharepoint Replace Root Site

 Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help. I'm currently repolacing my Classic Site with the Modern Sharepoint and I want to replace my Classic Root Site with my Modern site. However when I go to do...
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Matti Paukkonen
Iron Contributor
Aug 26, 2020

Hi dandelly 

 

You need to connect to tenant's SharePoint Admin Url with Connect-SPOService.

Connect-SPOService -Url https://<tenant URL>-admin.sharepoint.com

 

 

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dandelly
Copper Contributor
Aug 26, 2020

HiMatti Paukkonen 

I'm pretty new to this stuff! I don't understand what the below means can you direct me a little. Once I getv the site swapped I can build sites easily! It is just the coding part i'm unsure of.

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    dandelly
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 28, 2020

    hiMatti Paukkonen and everyone that helped.

    Thanks I now have a larger set of IT skills and the start of my School's Sharepoint site! Thanks again.

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    Matti Paukkonen
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 28, 2020

    dandelly 

     

    You seem to have en extra space on your Archive URL, right after https://

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    dandelly
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 27, 2020

    Hi Cissong 

    Thanks for the advice. I think i managed to run the code you sent, however i came up against an error and i'm not sure how to solve it? See attached image.

     

    Cheers

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    Cissong
    Brass Contributor
    Aug 27, 2020

    Hello dandelly 

     

    Did you try this from the GUI already and it did not work. then you might need to go through powershell to do this 

     

    If you are using powershell.

     

    First you need to connect to your SharePoint service by running this 

    Connect-SPOService

    url- https://teraberi-admin.sharepoint.com/ (your SharePoint admin center admin URL) 

     

    and then run this

     

    Invoke-SPOSiteSwap -SourceUrl https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/CommunicationSite -TargetUrl https://contoso.sharepoint.com -ArchiveUrl https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Archive

     

     

     

     

    what this does is this

     

    Archives the existing site at https://contoso.sharepoint.com/ to https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Archive and moves https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/CommunicationSite to https://contoso.sharepoint.com./ A site redirect will be created at https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/CommunicationSite that will redirect any requests to https://contoso.sharepoint.com./

     

     

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