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NotAlex
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Feb 07, 2019
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Disabling SharePoint Modern Experience Powershell

Does anyone know the command for disabling the SharePoint modern experience as the site collection level?   Microsoft has announced they are disabling the admin center setting and that it can be di...
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    NotAlex
    Feb 25, 2019

    If anyone needs this for the upcoming disabling of the SharePoint tenant-optout for modern experience.

     

    You can do it via SharePoint Online Management Shell with PNP installed

     

    Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/siteurl -Credentials $cred

    Enable-PnPFeature -Identity E3540C7D-6BEA-403C-A224-1A12EAFEE4C4 -Scope Site

     

    Or Via CSOM C#

    var siteFeatures = site.Features;

    var switchToClassicFeatureID = new Guid("e3540c7d-6bea-403c-a224-1a12eafee4c4");
    siteFeatures.Add(switchToClassicFeatureID, true,Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FeatureDefinitionScope.None);

    context.ExecuteQuery();

     

     

    Main points here: you are activating a feature not disabling it, and the feature scope has to be set to "none" instead of "site"

     

     

     

     

     

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NotAlex
Iron Contributor
Feb 22, 2019

Hi Juan Carlos

 

I appreciate the reply, but that way no longer works as the features are not present on the site collection or web.

 

Any other ideas?

 

Kind Regards

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NotAlex
Iron Contributor
Feb 25, 2019

If anyone needs this for the upcoming disabling of the SharePoint tenant-optout for modern experience.

 

You can do it via SharePoint Online Management Shell with PNP installed

 

Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/siteurl -Credentials $cred

Enable-PnPFeature -Identity E3540C7D-6BEA-403C-A224-1A12EAFEE4C4 -Scope Site

 

Or Via CSOM C#

var siteFeatures = site.Features;

var switchToClassicFeatureID = new Guid("e3540c7d-6bea-403c-a224-1a12eafee4c4");
siteFeatures.Add(switchToClassicFeatureID, true,Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FeatureDefinitionScope.None);

context.ExecuteQuery();

 

 

Main points here: you are activating a feature not disabling it, and the feature scope has to be set to "none" instead of "site"

 

 

 

 

 

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