Earlier today, I was working with a customer to begin enabling Viva Connections.
One of our prerequisites is ensuring the root site is the home site and that it is configured as a modern Communications site. For customers that provisioned their SharePoint environments several years ago but never really invested time in it, it the default SharePoint site may still be a legacy classic team site.
Fortunately, we have a quick way around that:
In order to convert a classic site to a modern Communications site, follow these steps:
Ensure you have the latest SharePoint Online PowerShell module. If you don’t have the SharePoint PowerShell module at all, launch an elevated PowerShell prompt and run:
Install-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell
If you have an older version and want to update it, launch an elevated PowerShell prompt and run:
Update-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell
Run the following commands, replacing <tenant> with your SharePoint Online tenant name.
$AdminCenterURL="https://<tenant>-admin.SharePoint.com" $SiteURL = "https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/" Connect-SPOService -Url $AdminCenterURL Enable-SPOCommSite -SiteUrl $SiteURL
Congratulations! Your default site has now been upgraded to a modern Communications site template! (Bonus: this trick works for any classic site you want to change).
Communicate away!