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Office 365 Groups - Home Pages on Sharepoint
Hi everyone, as many of you suspect, the reason you don't yet see a redirection to the 'Home' page for the group's site is because the rollout for 'Groups get sites' is not yet complete. We haven't done anything to explicitly hide the home page, which is why you can type the URL directly into the browser and see it currently. Once we have rolled out the feature WW, the home page will be available and navigable by default for all group sites.
MicrosoftHi everyone, as many of you suspect, the reason you don't yet see a redirection to the 'Home' page for the group's site is because the rollout for 'Groups get sites' is not yet complete. We haven't done anything to explicitly hide the home page, which is why you can type the URL directly into the browser and see it currently. Once we have rolled out the feature WW, the home page will be available and navigable by default for all group sites.
Also when we click on a "document library" or "list" on the left side of the group navigation we will actually stay in the group site instead of being taken out to the OneDrive like experience?
Videos from MS ignite confirm this but all that the FR community has seen has been this odd behavior. This has confused so many of my FR users who are testing these new features and don't get the navigation.
Hi Jesse,
I'm guessing things are still rolling out to us FR users.
I have Modern Pages and Team News on my tenant but still the odd behavior across SharePoint Sites and Groups. I have a partner demo tenant too, all the group accounts work correctly on that tenant, but the SharePoint sites still have odd behaviour.
Groups
After setting a modern page as the group's homepage, once you use the navigation menu on the left (to documents for example) you lose the navigation back to the home page it's the old style navigation view.
SharePoint Sites
Working much better but after adding a news page and content clicking on "See All" takes you to the old style home.aspx page it should show you all the news items on a single page.
It's working fine on groups though (Interestingly this behavior is also on my Partner Demo Tenant).
I think the problem is the FR stuff rolls out in bits and pieces so even though everything lights up and starts working things may still be rolling out. The problem is you don't have any clue where you are in the rollout process.
But great work by the SharePoint/Groups engineering teams, really looking forward to rolling this out to customers next year.
