‎Site design title is not changeable for default site design

Question

You can change a site design title using cmdlet:

Set-SPOSiteDesign -Identity -Title

This works for all of the site designs, APART FROM DEFAULT ONES.
It used to work for default ones too.

Now the default one is ALWAYS Team Site

I confirmed the behaviour on 3 different tenants.

My question:

• Is it a bug? Should it be possible to rename the default site design to something else than 'Team Site'?
• Is it a feature? This behaviour is here to stay and I have to learn to live with it

How to repro:

1. Add a site design
   Add-SPOSiteDesign -Title "testing title" -WebTemplate 64 -SiteScripts 3d95453d-e6eb-4c3b-845d-5d64c4f058e6
2. Set a custom title on default site design
   Set-SPOSiteDesign -Identity 7ba03f71-f9ec-4ce1-b16f-eb1de37f9b51 -Title "Custom title"

Result:
On creating a site, in the dropdown menu you see:

• Team Site
• testing title
  3. Change the default site design (set it to the other one):

Set-SPOSiteDesign -Identity c756345a-426c-4240-b9c5-6f3c0a7db940 -IsDefault $true

Result:
When creating a site, in the dropdown menu you see:

• Team Site
• Custom title

:)

Answer 1

Hi @Ana ,

How did you get the GUID of the default site design “Team site”?

I tried to reproduce your issue in my SharePoint tenant by using PowerShell command:
Set-SPOSiteDesign -Identity <Team site’s guid> –Title <new title>

Then I attempted to retrieve Team site’s guid as below:

As shown in the above screenshot, only the custom site designs could be retrieved, but the default ones like Team site were not retrieved, I was unable to get the GUID of the default site designs.

So I tried to search online, I found this article contains the description about retrieving the default site designs’ guids:

So I used the value of “Showcase” given by it to get the site design to check if the command could work well. However, it returned “File Not Found”:

When testing using a custom site design’s GUID, it could work well.

So, Per my test, “Set-SPOSiteDesign” seems only work for the custom Site Designs, but not for the default ones like team site, Topic, Showcase or Blank.

If I misunderstand your meaning, please feel free to reply.

I hope this information has been useful, please let me know if you still need assistance.

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Answer 2

Hi AllenXu,

Thank you for the answer and testing.

You can set your custom site design to be default, using
set-spositedesign -isdefault $true

The title, as you show in the screenshots, is correct in Powershell - I completely agree, but not in the User Interface, in the dropdown.

Check the test with switching default site design. The one you nominate as default will start appearing in UserInterface as 'Team site'.

When I run Get-SPOSiteDesign | select title I get

PS C:\Users\MeMe> Get-SPOSiteDesign | select title

Title

Custom title
testing title

But in the user interface one of them appears as 'Team Site' :-) depending which one has paramter isDefault set to $true

Answer 3

There is no solution.

In December, after two months waiting, I received an answer that it will be considered as a change request and given a #