We can change SharePoint default home page in different ways
as using Site settings if publishing feature already enabled, SharePoint object
model code, Using SharePoint designer and PowerShell commands.
We can change the home page by running following PowerShell
commands,
Get the Site details by using Get-SPSite command and web by
using OpenWeb() method.
$objSite = Get-SPSite SiteURL
$objWeb = $objSite.OpenWeb(“Sub site”)
Get the root folder for the web by using RootFolder property
$rootFolder = $objWeb.RootFolder
Change the home page by assigning Welcomepage property as
shown below
$rootFolder.Welcomepage = “SitePages/SureshHomePage.aspx”
$rootFolder.update()
After updating the page, we have to dispose the site and web
objects because that objects are created newly.
$objWeb.dispose()
$objSite.dispose()
By combing the all the commands we can see the script as
$objSite = Get-SPSite SiteURL
$objWeb = $objSite.OpenWeb(“Sub site”)
$rootFolder = $objWeb.RootFolder
$rootFolder.Welcomepage = “SitePages/SureshHomePage.aspx”
$rootFolder.update()
$objWeb.dispose()
$objSite.dispose()
