Unable to change the home site in sharepoint online

Question

Hi,

I want to set a home site in sharepoint online for global navigation. I found some blog and try to change the home site from the sharepoint admin center. But unable to do that. When I click on homesites I found this. Can you please help me to set up the home site just to add the Global navigation in my sharepoint.

Answer 1

Hi @Khushboo Kumari ,

Set up a home site from the SharePoint admin center is no longer available after June 2023. Instead, you need to use the Viva Connections admin center.

If you want to Set up a SharePoint home site just for global navigation, you can use the following steps:

1. Start by creating a SharePoint communication site.
2. Customize the communication site navigation to reflect the view you’d like to see in the global navigation pane. You can make edits to the navigation source and individual labels and links at any time.
3. Set this communication site as a SharePoint home site using the SharePoint Online Management Shell tool.

$AdminSiteURL = "https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com/"
$HomeSiteURL = "https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename"
 
#Connect to the Site
Connect-SPOService -URL $AdminSiteURL -Credential (Get-Credential)
 
#Set Home Site
Set-SPOHomeSite -HomeSiteUrl $HomeSiteURL

4. Share the SharePoint home site with users so they can access the global navigation links.
5. On the SharePoint home site, select Settings and then Global navigation to enable and customize.
6. For the global navigation source, select Home site navigation to display the SharePoint home site navigation that you created in the global navigation panel, then select Save.

For your reference:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/home-site-plan

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/viva-connections-overview#how-sharepoint-home-sites-and-viva-connections-work-together

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/set-up-admin-center

Hope this helps.

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