Forum Discussion
Modern subsites?
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.
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.
So I believe it's currently for First Release tenants only, but it will be possible to create Modern Team Sites as subsites without groups associated with them in the near future:
This option showed up in our Dev tenant a few weeks ago. Has not appeared in production tenant yet.
