What is SharePoint Home site?
On 2 minutesSharePoint Home Site is a new feature available in modern SharePoint that allows you to designate a given site as a Home Site for the whole SharePoint Intranet. By doing so, you formally label/authorize a site to be THE MAIN SITE of the portal.
It should not be confused a start page. SharePoint Start Page is an out of the box page that just tracks the sites you follow, regularly visit, etc.
Important Notes first
- You can only turn a Communication Site into a Home Site. You cannot turn any other type of site into a Home Site (i.e., Team Site).
- You are only allowed to have 1 (one) Home Site at a time.
- You cannot turn a Communication Site that is associated with a Hub into a Home Site. It has to be either a standalone Communication Site or a Communication Site that is registered as a Hub Site.
- You can turn a site into a Home Site only via PowerShell.
Set-SPOHomeSite -HomeSiteUrl https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/yourcommsite
How to unregister a site as Home Site
- If you want to switch Home Site to a different site (since we can only have one home site at a time), just run
Set-SPOHomeSite -HomeSiteUrl https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/yourcommsite
PowerShell command again, putting a new Communication site URL in place of https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/yourcommsite - If you do not want to have any Home Sites in your tenant, you can run the following command in PowerShell:
Remove-SPOHomeSite
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