Microsoft adds home site controls to SharePoint admin center
Admins can now create and designate home sites straight from the SharePoint Admin Center. Two new web parts appear at the same time. The Resources web part pulls together links and tools while the Announcements web part works without a separate Viva license. The changes roll out between May and June 2026. Management moves away from Teams, PowerShell, and Viva into one console. Mobile views and Copilot indexing both improve as a result. Existing custom branding stays intact. The separate News web part filmstrip update arrives on its own schedule.
Until now an admin had to jump between the Teams admin center, PowerShell scripts, and Viva settings just to set a home site or add basic announcements. That fragmentation hid the scale of abandoned team sites and loose permissions that built up over years. The new controls put everything in one place and make the home site the default starting point for mobile users and Copilot searches. Without a clean-up first, the same sprawl and stale content will simply become more visible and harder to ignore once the interface updates.
Analysis
Treat the rollout date as a hard deadline to audit every site in the tenant. Open the SharePoint Admin Center this week, sort by last activity, and delete or archive anything untouched for six months before the new home site experience makes the mess permanent.
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