Sharepoint online frequent sites

Anonymous
2017-12-04T16:44:20+00:00

My frequent sites never changes.  It is only showing 3 sites and they are sites I haven't visited in several months.  How do I get this to update with actual frequently visited sites?

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Anonymous
2018-10-03T06:55:12+00:00

Hi All,

Considering this thread has aged, it may be difficult for members and us to follow up separately. Besides, the original poster Stacey has resolved the issue, and we have also received feedback from other members that the issue has been resolved itself. This thread will be closed from further posting for affected users to easily identify the information since there may be different root causes for different tenants. 

You can follow the steps I mentioned in the summary above to try troubleshooting the issue.

  1. Ensure you have deleted the sites. If you are an admin in the tenant, please try removing the deleted site via Remove-SPODeletedSite command manually.
  2. After you manually delete the deleted sites, please wait for 30 days and check if the situation remains.

If the issue persists, please feel free to post a new thread in this forum, we are more than willing to help you resolve it separately.

We appreciate your understanding.

Regards,

Yoga

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Anonymous
2018-09-17T06:30:55+00:00

Hi All,

Considering this thread has aged, I would like to post a summary of the issue here so that other community members can easily see the information.

Issue description:

Deleted sites still display in Frequent sites list on the SharePoint home page.

Additional information:

We would like to suggest you follow the steps below to try troubleshooting the issue:

  1. Ensure you have deleted the sites. If you are an admin in the tenant, please try removing the deleted site via Remove-SPODeletedSite command manually.
  2. After you manually delete the deleted sites, please wait for 30 days and check if the situation remains.

Suggestion:

If the issue persists after you manually delete the sites for 30 days, since there may be different root causes for different tenants, please feel free to post back and let us know. We will collect the related tenant information, so that we can check more details and help you resolve the issue separately.

Regards,

Yoga

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-12-05T00:07:22+00:00

    There are many complaints about the nonsensical sharepoint.aspx page but Msft seems unable to fix the problem or even explain why it's so awful.

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_sharepoint-mso_winother/change-the-sharepointaspx-page/d7167bac-78bf-43d7-9c71-62ca9923ca0d

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-06T09:02:27+00:00

    Hi Stacey,

    To better understand the situation, I'd like to confirm the following things:

    1. Is it possible that some files from these three sites are opened by you in other location (e.g. Delve page)?
    2. Could you access these three site collections now? Make sure they are not deleted.
    3. Contact your admin, check if Audit log is enabled in your tenant. If yes,search for audit logs for these three sites in Security & Compliance center. See if there are some activities related to your account.

    Best regards,

    Tim

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-06T23:39:09+00:00

    "To better understand the situation, I'd like to confirm the following things:"

    What about the situation don't you understand? If Msft thinks frequent sites are a good idea, they should ensure that the sites frequently visited show up. This isn't rocket science. Personally I think this is a classic example of technology driving content - someone at Msft figured out how to do it so it was pushed out to users regardless of whether or not it's useful or even working correctly. Assuming some people may like it (though I can't imagine why anyone would want to see a site they already know they've visited)  - a better way to do it would be to make it an available option, not the first page you land on. And in that scenario make sure it actually works!

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