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Modern subsites?
I am concerned about what happens to existing structure in this scenario. I understand that splitting things out into site collections can be better in some instances, but what about where you have different solutions or sub departments and you want a separate group associated with it for each? Or the case where you have regional sites and then departments per site that need to re-use content from the regional site collection root (site columns, content types, etc.) Are we expected to duplicate all those columns across the site collections that need them?? To rule the possibility of O365 Group Enabled subsites out completely is going to hamper existing tenants switching over to the modern experience in a major way.
Current, the new Hub Sites, do not provide any ability to deploy Content Types and/or site columns
If you need to control these, the current best approach is to the PnP PowerShell cmdlets to provision new sites with the specific items you desire
ssquiresfrom Microsoft has stated that they are working on improving the functionality in the Content Type Hub, what this means and when it will happen remain to be seen.
I don't see group-enables subsites coming any time soon because that would make a very complicated engineering problem even worse.
- How do we share lists across site collections, the kind that drive lookup column values? This is a major reason why ppl use subsites...Not going to use managed metadata for dynamic content like contracts, purchase orders, work packages, etc...
I am having the exact same issue. I am in the process of trying to plan for migration and want to migrate from on premise classic to cloud modern. I think mixed use will just bring so much confusion to my user base. I have a definite need to have shared lookup columns also (ie Customer lookup etc). It is crazy to have to maintain multiple lookup lists what a mess. I use AD groups for security so I don't need O365 groups for security, however I do use SharePoint groups only for SharePoint Designer workflows and sometimes for field level security on custom forms using client-side JS. I am hoping that I will be able to use my AD groups for workflows when I rewrite workflows using Flow. I have no idea whether I can use the AD groups for custom forms using either PowerApps or SharePoint Framework custom forms.
