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Mo Anwar
Apr 29, 2019Copper Contributor
Are subsites getting deprecated in SPO?
Are subsites getting deprecated in SPO? With focus on hubsites, will MS keep subsites or remove them? Asking because I am creating a solution that uses subsites.
Apr 29, 2019
Subsites are "deprecated" in that they are not recommended by Microsoft. Subsites are difficult to manage, so it makes a bit of sense.
Mo Anwar
Apr 29, 2019Copper Contributor
Thank you Trevor Seward for the response! Yeah I was told this by a client today that it was deprecated and that put me on the back foot. Thank you for the confirmation that it is recommended not to use.
- Apr 29, 2019Well, I would say that te recommendation is to go to a "Flat" architecture whenever is possible...deprecated has not been said yet by Microsoft
- MichMJan 14, 2020Copper Contributor
Is there any evidence that Microsoft are going to ‘actually’ deprecate subsites, or is there an element of reading between the lines here? I can see that hub sites have a roll to play as they offer valuable cross-site publishing which has been problematic in the past, but subsites offer site columns, metadata navigation, and permission inheritance. All the features of subsites have not be made available in other ways if you flatten the structure to use site collections alone.. As an example, if you have a site collection for each and every project in an organisation, there is massive administration overhead compared to each project being a subsite of a ‘programme’ site collection.
- Jan 14, 2020
MichM any classic feature, e.g. metadata navigation, is "deprecated" (hence being called 'classic'). Hub sites are adding permission-push down soon.
And remember, deprecated means "may be removed in the future/no new features being developed" and not "removed".