Walkthrough - Promote

Promote converts your subsite to a site collection by migrating it to the same level as your other site collections.

Note: You can decide to keep your original subsite in the options when using Promote.

Index

• Prerequisites
• How-to

Prerequisites

• You have global admin, Farm admin, or SharePoint admin permissions.
• You have site collection admin permissions on the site collection that contains the subsites you want to promote.
• You have term store admin permissions on your source and destination if you have managed metadata (Terms, Term sets, Term set groups) in your migration scope.
• You are connected to your Microsoft 365 Admin center or SharePoint central admin.

Note: Site collection admin permissions are required even if you have higher admin privileges like SharePoint admin or global admin permissions. For more information, see Administrative permissions.

How-to

1. Select Copy from the sidebar.
2. Select the Restructure environment tab.
3. Select Promote subsite into site.
4. Click on the web app at the top to select another one, or to add a new connection.
5. Expand the site collection with the subsite(s) you want to promote.
6. Add a check mark to the left of the subsite(s).
7. Click Continue to options.
8. Set your options.
9. Click Promote.

The operation will run, displaying the progress summary from the Promote report screen. You can access the summary and the Promote report at any time from Tasks.

Note: The permissions are handled the same as with Copy structure when promoting a subsite as a full site copy.