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The root site URL for SharePoint Online is provisioned based off your input when setting up your Office 365 subscription. For example, if your organization name is Contoso, the root site for SharePoint Online will be https://contoso.sharepoint.com. The remainder of this document will utilize Contoso as the organization name for all examples.
What happens if the root site is deleted in SharePoint?
If the root site is deleted, users will experience the following problems immediately: Users will receive an error 404 when trying to access the root site because the root site (https://contoso.sharepoint.com) is no longer available.
If either site is a hub site, unregister it as a hub site, replace the root site, and then re-register the site as a hub site. If either site is associated with a hub, disassociate the site, replace the root site, and then reassociate the site. Learn how to manage hubs in the new SharePoint admin center
Can a root site be connected to a Microsoft 365 group?
The current root site can’t be connected to a Microsoft 365 group. When you replace the root site, both the current site and the new site can’t be hub sites or associated with a hub.
How to make your Root Site a modern site?
If you want to continue using the classic team site, enable the modern site pages library experience and set a modern page as the home page of the root site. This gives users a modern team site experience with the left navigation.
How to move SharePoint subsite to root of site collection?
We are in the process of restructuring our SharePoint environment and have subsites that we will be migrating to their own site collection. However we need to preserve the GUIDs of objects as we do this, so we will be using the Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment option.
When to replace your root site with another site?
Replacing the root site with another site replaces the entire site collection with the new site collection. If your current root site has subsites, they’ll be archived. The site you select as the new root site must be within the same domain as the current root site. We recommend replacing the root site at a time when site usage is low.
When to use scriptlink, ScriptBlock and…?
Another difference with using the SharePoint:ScriptLink is that when the file gets loaded it must exist, otherwise you will get a SharePoint Error screen. This could help you ensure that SharePoint is seeing your js file Besides referencing JavaScript files, your ASP.NET pages can have inline JavaScript code.
In addition, some tokens are usable only in apps. For more information about them, see URL strings and tokens in SharePoint Add-ins. The tokens in the tables of this section can be used in URLs in a wide variety of situations in SharePoint development, such as in custom actions and in links on custom pages.