{"id":1939,"date":"2019-08-22T16:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T20:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2019-09-20T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:31:14","slug":"change-swap-sharepoint-root-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/change-swap-sharepoint-root-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Change \/ Swap SharePoint Root Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video I demonstrate how to change \/ swap the root SharePoint site in an Office 365 SharePoint environment.<\/p>\n<p>This process essentially swaps the root site with another site that you specify.<\/p>\n<p>This is a nice process to use because you can create your new root site, then swap it with your current root site when you deem the time is right.<\/p>\n<p>The original root site is archived, so you do not lose any data.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few reasons why you might want to do this:<\/p>\n<p>1. Your root site is currently a Classic site (Team Site, Publishing Site, etc.) and you want to swap it with a Modern site (Hub Site, Communications Site).<\/p>\n<p>2. Your root site is currently a Modern site and you want to swap it with a classic site.<\/p>\n<p>3. You want to use this operation as a deployment mechanism as part of your ALM where you swap a &#8216;production&#8217; site with a &#8216;development site&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the PowerShell command here: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powershell\/module\/sharepoint-online\/invoke-spositeswap?view=sharepoint-ps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powershell\/module\/sharepoint-online\/invoke-spositeswap?view=sharepoint-ps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yL6_-Me0WNY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video I demonstrate how to change \/ swap the root SharePoint site in an Office 365 SharePoint environment. This process essentially swaps the root<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,46,104,97],"tags":[42,6,45,7,43],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-most-popular","category-office-365","category-sharepoint","tag-cloud","tag-how-to-sharepoint","tag-o365","tag-sharepoint","tag-sharepoint-online"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbaginski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}