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The Landing site template to home page/communication site
If you apply a template from the SharePoint lookbook it will always create a brand new site collection with that template.
This works differently from the "Site Templates" Feature in SharePoint that applies the template to the current site.I understand that you want to apply the "The Landing" template from the SharePoint Lookbook to your root site collection "https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/".
In that case go to "https://lookbook.microsoft.com/details/c9300e94-6e83-471a-b767-b7878689e97e" and simply install the "The Landing" template to a brand new (temporary) Site Collection with a temporary url.Then, after provisioning login as a SharePoint Administrator into SharePoint Powershell and use the Invoke-SPOSiteSwap Command to swap your old root site with the temporary "The Landing" site.
Invoke-SPOSiteSwap -SourceUrl https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/thelandingtemporary -TargetUrl https://tenant.sharepoint.com -ArchiveUrl https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/oldrootsite
If you apply a template from the SharePoint lookbook it will always create a brand new site collection with that template.
This works differently from the "Site Templates" Feature in SharePoint that applies the template to the current site.
I understand that you want to apply the "The Landing" template from the SharePoint Lookbook to your root site collection "https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/".
In that case go to "https://lookbook.microsoft.com/details/c9300e94-6e83-471a-b767-b7878689e97e" and simply install the "The Landing" template to a brand new (temporary) Site Collection with a temporary url.
Then, after provisioning login as a SharePoint Administrator into SharePoint Powershell and use the Invoke-SPOSiteSwap Command to swap your old root site with the temporary "The Landing" site.
Invoke-SPOSiteSwap -SourceUrl https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/thelandingtemporary -TargetUrl https://tenant.sharepoint.com -ArchiveUrl https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/oldrootsite
