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Navigate to the SharePoint Admin Center by clicking on SharePoint under Admin centers.

Click on Office 365 App Launcher > Admin.

Next, we need to navigate to the SharePoint Admin Center to begin the root site replacement (swap) process. Step 3: Navigate to the SharePoint Admin Center

Navigate to either a SharePoint Admin Center or SharePoint Start Page and click on Create Site.

This makes sense as you probably will use your root site as the main Hub Site/Intranet Home Site. In almost all of the cases, you want to proceed with a Communication Site Template. To help you understand this further, please reference this post on the various sit types we have in SharePoint. You cannot replace the root site with a Group-connected site. Per Microsoft guidelines, it has to be either a modern team site without an Office 365 Group or a Communication Site. Step 2: Create a modern site firstįor us to replace a classic root site in SharePoint Online, first, we must create a modern site we will use as a replacement. If it is or was used, make sure all the content has been backed up and no one is synchronizing any libraries from the root site or its subsites to their computers (otherwise, when the old site is moved over to archival URL – more on this later) – it will cause sync issues.

#Emcopy cannot copy root how to#

Root Site is always a preferred “destination” since it has the cleanest URL and is easy to remember, and is a good candidate for the company’s Hub, so that is why I am doing this post to explain how to take advantage of it and replace a classic root site in SharePoint Online with a modern one.įirst, make sure that the current, classic root site and subsites (if any) are not used by anyone.

If you do remove the root site somehow, you are – all your other SharePoint sites, including everyone’s OneDrive, will stop working until you recover the site from the Recycle Bin or provision a new one.

In most cases, this is prohibited via the user interface A few important notes about the root SharePoint site

I explain further in this post as well (though a bit outdated with screenshots, it still defines the concept well). The root site is the site with just a in the URL without any suffixes. Just so that we are on the same page about this, I want to take a minute to explain what the root site is.Īs you create new modern sites, they get addresses with /sites/sitename or /teams/sitename suffix at the end. Luckily, we now have the out-of-the-box functionality to replace a classic root site in SharePoint Online with the modern equivalent. However, the classic experience prevents you from using this site as a Hub Site and the main landing page for your Intranet. Tar -c -v -f - user12 | ssh your organization enrolled in the Office 365 subscription prior to April 2019, your root SharePoint site was created with what we now call “classic team site template.” While all new sites you create now are going to be modern, the root site (which was provisioned at the time of the subscription) still bears the classic look and feel.

#Emcopy cannot copy root update#

Here's the last example repeated in a way that will update the permissions on "user12": cd /home You can fix this if you use tar to capture the directory instead of ".". Note: tar will update the permissions on all files except the root directory because it didn't create it.

#Emcopy cannot copy root password#

The command will work even if ssh is going to ask for a password because ssh is smart enough to not connect the pipe until the login is complete.

Your normal user account usually can't chown a file, so neither can tar. Remember that you have to do this as root if you want to copy the file owner:group too. The & is like (semicolon) but it means "only execute the next command if this one was successful." | ssh "mkdir -p $DESTDIR & cd /home/user12 & tar -x -p -v f -"

| ssh $DEST_HOST "mkdir -p $DESTDIR & cd $DESTDIR & tar -x -p -f -" You can write connect the two tars by a pipe and you don't need a temporary file, nor the disk space! To specify stdin or stdout specify the file name - (hyphen).

#Emcopy cannot copy root free#

"That temporary file might be huge! Bigger than the free space that I have!" Don't worry. The trick is to make a tar file of the files, copy the file to the new server, then extract the tar file with -p to preserve the file permissions. Sometimes you find yourself on a system without rsync. Before rsync existed here's a trick that is worth knowing.