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Copper Contributor

Nov 07, 2016

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PnP Provisoning to include Sub sites

I am trying to use the provisioning engine from console app. My template is a site collection with few sub sites. When I export my xml I am only seeing the information for the site collection and not...

Pieter Veenstra
Nov 08, 2016
Vijay Rajagopolan,

I agree with Deleted. The reason why you would need to keep your root site is that site columns and content types should live within the root site. Therefore you will find quite often tthat when you update the subsite's template you will also need to reapply the root site as columns/content types could have chnaged.

Pieter Veenstra

MVP

Nov 08, 2016

Vijay Rajagopolan,

I agree with Deleted. The reason why you would need to keep your root site is that site columns and content types should live within the root site. Therefore you will find quite often tthat when you update the subsite's template you will also need to reapply the root site as columns/content types could have chnaged.

Vijay Rajagopolan

Copper Contributor

Nov 08, 2016

Thank you so much that is what I thought but want to make sure the approach is correct and also not missing information that is already out there.

Thanks,

Vijay

Pieter Veenstra wrote:
Vijay Rajagopolan,

I agree with Deleted. The reason why you would need to keep your root site is that site columns and content types should live within the root site. Therefore you will find quite often tthat when you update the subsite's template you will also need to reapply the root site as columns/content types could have chnaged.

nitinkumar kakulde
Copper Contributor
Dec 30, 2016
Hi Team,

I am able to migrate the site structure of Site collection to another site collection of other teanant in SharePOint online but same is not working for sub site to sub site misite structure migration using below PnP Get and Apply provisiontemplate command

Connect-SPOnline -Url https://domainName.sharepoint.com/Sites/TT1/SubSite -Credential DEV #(Get-Credential)
Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate -Path .\RetailerExtranetQARootSiteStructureToTSW_2.xml

In PowerShell it shows logs that lists and CT created but actually its not create anything at subsite level.

Site collection level migration working perfect by executinge below command

Connect-SPOnline -Url https://domainName.sharepoint.com/Sites/TT1 -Credential DEV #(Get-Credential)
Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate -Path .\SiteCollectionLevelStructure.xml

Your help would be appreciated. Please let me know as soon as possible where is the problem.