Forum Discussion
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 :-)