Set "Communication Site" as Root site collection
For organisations that would like to use Communication site as their intranet it would be great if you could provision the root site as a Communication site, rather than a team site with a redirect to the communication site.
There is a workaround as mentioned here but i'd prefer a Microsoft supported method https://hangconsult.com/2017/06/29/change-sharepoint-online-root-site-collection-to-use-the-new-communication-site-template/
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As per the Message Center Post MC187289 we have started to roll out Site Swap. This is a new PowerShell cmdlet Invoke-SPOSiteSwap that will enable you to swap your existing root site with a Communication Site. For further information please refer to https://aka.ms/SiteSwap.
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Carl Flowers
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Why NO UPDATES here??? Typical Microsoft Vaperware or software that doesn't get tested correctly and no one is held accountable.
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Anonymous
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Has this been released yet?
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Bill Burke
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Looking at the M365 roadmap this morning, it's now scheduled for release in Q4 CY 2019. hmmm... never get your hopes up, this is how they roll.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=46338
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Anonymous
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Any update on this? Is this actually completed and rolled out yet. If so where are the specifics? The link above to twitter post is dead https://twitter.com/dcpadur/status/1118367712177205248
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Rick Stewart
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Saw this in my Admin site as a new feature! Unfortunately, I don't think we can take advantage of the Powershell cmdlet because we have the classic publishing features activated (managed navigation, custom theming, using CQWP and CSWP). Hoping MS expands this to give folks like us the ability to convert.
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Your Name
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I feel like when MS actually specifies a month or quarter it's going to be released, that is hit less than 25% of the time, need to submit a uservoice for that.
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Your Name
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I check this every day, like a kid waiting for Santa clause.
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Rick Stewart
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Looks like the release was updated to "Q2 2019".
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Anonymous
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Is the PowerShell commands available yet?
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Anonymous
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Is the PowerShell commands available yet?
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Koen Zomers
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This is supposed to become available in April:
https://twitter.com/danholme/status/1101964881966714880 -
Andy
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Hi Andy Haon - Can you confirm how people would navigate to this site/page?
Is the only way to get to this site by typing in the URL in a browser or are people directed here another way?
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Andy Haon
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Hi all,
My name is Andy Haon and I work in the SharePoint Experiences product team. First off, thanks for your continued interest in this feature.We are actively in development on enabling the ability to activate the Communication site feature at the root site of existing Office 365 tenants. We’ve been rolling out the capability that new Office 365 tenants get a Communication site at the root, but for a variety of reasons enabling this capability for existing tenants has gone longer than our original planned schedule. At this point, we expect to start rolling this out in early Q2 (April) and plan to complete the rollout overall by the end of Q2 (June).
You can see this item on our public roadmap - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=46338
Thanks again for your support and patience on this one, and please know that we want to get this out to as soon as possible, with high quality. Thx, Andy
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Nicklas Lundqvist
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@microsoft - updates please!
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Harsh
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How long will we have to wait
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Martin Coupal
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Can someone @microsoft confirm this approach to be valid? Looks to me the right way to do it for business who can't wait forever : https://www.spjeff.com/2018/12/31/video-create-modern-communication-for-root-site-in-tenant/
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Gabibis
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if I have a Classic Publishing root site today with various subsites, what happens to those subsite when we run the CommSite PowerShell cmdlet? Do those stay as they are, or are those deleted?
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Anonymous
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February 2019...
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Anonymous
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Where is the update on this? Was supposed to launch in Q4 2018
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kyas
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I was counting on this coming in January as per announcement.
Sharepoint usage is very fragmented, and I am looking at alternatives now.
Any idea when this could be delivered?
