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Massimo Prota
Copper Contributor
Nov 07, 2016

MDS in SharePoint Online

we want to make use of Minimal Download Strategy (MDS) feature on some of our sites to test some behavior in relation with some customizations.

 

However, and this happens on multiple tenants as well as on newly created site collections, when we create a new Team Site and we make sure MDS feature is enabled on site (and Publishing is NOT enabled); MDS never takes place.

 

These are the steps we performed on a new site collection:

- Create new site collection using Admin Center, using 'Team Site' template

- Ensure 'Publishing' is disabled for Site Collection and Site level

- Ensure 'Minimal Download Strategy' is enabled on Site level

- Ensure Web property 'EnableMinimalDownload' is set to True (via CSOM)

- Try navigating to some site pages, should have MDS taking place ('start.aspx#..' in URL bar), but this never occurs

 

Anyone experiencing the same, or knowing support of MDS is going away from SPO?

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    Deleted
    Nov 08, 2016

    Have you looked into PNP as this is a feature you want to set or not set. With PNP you can provision the sites correctly.

    • Massimo Prota's avatar
      Massimo Prota
      Copper Contributor
      Nov 08, 2016

      Hi Paul,

       

      it should be something enabled by default (and it has always been so) for Team Site, so I don't see the need of a custom remote provisioning.

       

      Now trying to make use of it from a standard Team Site (also newly created) doesn't behave as expected.

      I know which are the factors invalidating MDS and I ensured they're not in place, as I described.

       

      Regards,

      Massimo

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