Following Sites in SharePoint Online

[Juan M Baena]

We are in the process of migrating some web sites from a different platform into SharePoint Online. The on premise non SharePoint environment allowed users in following sites.  As those same sites move to SharePoint Online, is there anything that we could do for pre-stating the "following" of those sites on behalf of the users?  Rather than having the user figure out where all those sites went to and then pick them one by one to follow them again in SharePoint Online. Thank you all for any insights!

[#2]

I don't know if you can impersonate or set this for other people, but you can USE rest API to do some of this. Might give you something to go by, but there isn't anything easy to accomplish this per say out of the box :).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/following-people-and-content-res...

[#3]

Thank you so much!

[#4]

Seems not to be possible, but you can try some workarounds as suggested here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48114556/how-to-follow-a-sharepoint-site-with-powershell

[#5]

Can't do on modern site thou ;(.