SharePoint Online: How to Disable Social Bar (Like, Comment, Views, Save for later) in Modern Site Pages?
Requirement: Disable Social Bar links (Like, Comment, Views, Save for later) in SharePoint Online Modern Site Pages
PowerShell to Hide Social Bar Links in SharePoint Online Site Collection:
The Social Bar is a new feature in SharePoint Online modern pages that lets users like, comment, and see the number of views. Run this PowerShell script in SharePoint Online Management Shell to disable the social bar. Make sure you set the parameters accordingly.
#Set Parameters
$AdminCenterURL="https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com"
$SiteURL = "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing"
#Connect to SharePoint Online
Connect-SPOService -Url $AdminCenterURL -Credential (Get-Credential)
#Disable Social Bar on Site Pages
Set-SPOSite -Identity $SiteURL -SocialBarOnSitePagesDisabled $True
Similarly, To disable the SharePoint Online Social bar at the Tenant level, use:
Set-SPOTenant -SocialBarOnSitePagesDisabled $true
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Here is another post on disabling comments on Modern pages in SharePoint Online: SharePoint Online: Disable Page Comments in Modern Sites using PowerShell
Can you do it for one specific page only?
I need this too 🙂
Comments can be turned-ON or OFF at page level, but not the entire social bar as of today! How to Disable Comments in Modern Site Pages in SharePoint Online?
cmdlet Get-Credential at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Connect-SPOService : The ‘Connect-SPOService’ command was found in the module
‘Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell’, but the module could not be loaded. For more
information, run ‘Import-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell’.
At line:6 char:1
+ Connect-SPOService -Url $AdminCenterURL -Credential (Get-Credential)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Connect-SPOService:String) [], CommandNotFoun
dException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotAutoloadMatchingModule
Set-SPOSite : The ‘Set-SPOSite’ command was found in the module
‘Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell’, but the module could not be loaded. For more
information, run ‘Import-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell’.
At line:9 char:1
+ Set-SPOSite -Identity $SiteURL -SocialBarOnSitePagesDisabled $True
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Set-SPOSite:String) [], CommandNotFoundExcept
ion
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotAutoloadMatchingModule
Try re-installing SharePoint Online Management Shell “Install-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -force” and use: Import-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell
Thank you, exactly what I was looking for.