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.

Prerequisites

• You are connected as a Farm Administrator or Global Administrator.
• You have site collection admin permissions on the source site collection(s).
• You are connected to your Admin center or Central admin.

Index

How-To

How-To

1. Select Copy in the menu.
2. Click 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  next to the subsite(s).
7. Click .
8. Adjust your options.
9. Click .
10. The task will run, and you will see the promote summary screen (you can access the summary anytime through Tasks).

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