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Apply Communication Site Experience to Root Site Availability?
I'm looking for an update to the "Apply the communication site experience to the root site" feature. Roadmap says Q1, but with all the issues going on it looks like this is still experimental. What I really need to know is if it will be available in the next 6 weeks or not. A "definitely not" is fine, just need to know.
Also, will this still be a limitation when the feature goes live: "The root site can be converted to a communication site only if the classic publishing feature was never turned on." (emphasis added)
Doc page here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/modern-root-site#apply-the-communication-site-experience-to-the-root-site-coming-soon
Arknev If you want to make the root site to communication site you might be already aware the option of Invoke-SPOSiteSwap which helps you to swap any communication site to be as your root site. But it's always your use which will decide this might work for you or not. If you current rot site has lot of contents and sub-sites it might not be replaced then that will be show stopper for you. Sorry for not focusing in to your question, as this is a feature yet to be released so we don't see much of documentation from MS yet. But this is from the road map i can get it seems might take some time.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?rtc=1&filters=SharePoint&searchterms=root
Hopefully this helps. Mark the response appropriately if it helps.
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Arknev If you want to make the root site to communication site you might be already aware the option of Invoke-SPOSiteSwap which helps you to swap any communication site to be as your root site. But it's always your use which will decide this might work for you or not. If you current rot site has lot of contents and sub-sites it might not be replaced then that will be show stopper for you. Sorry for not focusing in to your question, as this is a feature yet to be released so we don't see much of documentation from MS yet. But this is from the road map i can get it seems might take some time.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?rtc=1&filters=SharePoint&searchterms=root
Hopefully this helps. Mark the response appropriately if it helps.
Vikram_Samal Yes, you are right, I am aware of the site swap option. The current root site does have several sub-sites, and is using the publishing feature. Thus, I think we will have to take the swap approach. Thanks for the response.
