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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Ciprian
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Hey Microsoft, any updates on this? You've been thinking about it for more than a year. I mean, this is a pretty basic requirement urgently needed by any company with an intranet.
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Chris Helsby
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The ability to have the root site and indeed create communication sites within the /sites/ managed path via Powershell and Central administration is very important. Self-service site creation is still not viable for many intranets.
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Phil
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Need this please!
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Srrinath
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Yes, please..
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Grant
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Ideally a Communication site, but even a Modern Team Site (without associated o365 group) would be ok.
Still think it's crazy that you can't do this - would have thought that the root site collection would have been the first one to allow for the Modern Sites as it's almost every tenant's landing page.
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Fschick
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Please. Do. This.
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Simon Hudson
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It's a key requirement that the top level Site Collection can act as a full Communications Site. It seems like this is the most obvious use of Comms sites.
Failing that there needs to be a simple way to redirect the root directly to a chosen Home Page on a Comms site -
Graham Potter
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This should be seen as a critical fix. You can already make a top level site collection a HUB, and so it makes total sense that we at least have the option to have the root site collection be based off a truly modern communications site (or any other modern site).
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Prakash
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BIG YESS
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Anonymous
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YES PLEASE
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Anonymous
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I Need This!
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Dr. Sushi
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Can't agree more, Spot on!
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Chris Webb
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Here is the slide, later in 2018 "Select nav location" Basically setting this to top will give you Comm site look and feel of standard Team sites.
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Chris Webb
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This option was on the slides for coming to SHarePoint in the design sessions at SPC. They are adding the comm site template as an option.
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Marcel
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We definitely want a modern Communications site as root site too.
The only alternative is to buy/develop a custom theme, but that may break with future O365 developments. Getting OOTB functionality is our main reason to move to O365...
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Jason Keys
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This was a First Release option in 2016? 45% through 2018 now.
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Ciprian
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This is such a must. Especially for large intranets that benefit from full width landing pages. Like Joel said earlier, Comms template should have been the default, makes no sense to make the Team template as default for root, no sense at all.
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Anonymous
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It would also be good to be able to create Communication sites under the "sites" path and not just under the "teams" path.
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Thomas Baklund
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This should most def happen!
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Anonymous
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I am very interested in when the root site can become a modern communication site, and how to minimize impact on existing content/site structure
