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Publishing Infrastructure - Turn Off - implications?
We started a Sharepoint Online tenant a few years ago and turned on Publishing Infrastructure without knowing much about it. Can we turn it off now? We don't use any features that I am aware of. Are ...
RobOK, I'm curious to know if you went ahead with this. If so, did your sites experience any serious issues?
- Turning off Publishing does not remove all elements of Publishing. One key take-away is that you still cannot create a Site Template, should you want to do so (and if you manually do so, it's not supported for restore). One of the ways we found this in various scenarios was the PropertyBag on the RootWeb would have remanence of Publishing previously enabled. Those tickets we got to close as 'not supported' when someone was having problems creating a Site Template :-)
- Hello, I read this post and replies with interest cause I am in a similar position. I have a team site which has recently had legacy (SP13) content/libraries copied into it. Publishing features were enabled for this copying/migration. I am now interested in disabling publishing features predominately because I want to have the option for top navigation as I had previously. I am being told a little vaguely that disabling the publishing features will/could impact the legacy content but not how and to what extent. Having the navigation on top and not side is important also for users with smaller screens so the right hand column of our homepage isn't pushed to bottom of page. Would love to hear what issues I may or may not have by disabling publishing features. Thanks
Thanks for the information. My main concern is ensuring that by turning off Publishing Infrastructure at the site collection level, we're not going to lose or damage any of our Modern pages. We aren't relying on Publishing features anymore (Modern elements to classic site collections seem not to rely on it at all), so if the only thing we'll have to revist would be navigation, fine by me.
