Re: Modern Team Site - Global navigation

I'm having different issues with enabling metadata global navigation in my tenant.

I've successfully enabled the publishing site collection features, but whenever I want to switch to metadata navigation I get "Access Denied" for our root sharepoint online site collection.

I'm Global Admin, Site Collection Admin and have manually assigned me Owner Permissions for the root site. Still Access Denied.

Anyone else?

Yes, sub sites were configured to inherit the global navigation, but instead of displaying the parent global navigation, the local navigation was displayed as the global navigation on sub sites. In my developer tenant inherit of the global navigation seems to be fixed now.

I configured the global navigation manually on each sub site, but you could use PnP PowerShell and the Provisioning engine to do this. Something like this:

$cred = Get-Credential
Connect-PnPOnline -Url "<URL to site where you have configured the global navigation>" -Credentials $cred
Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Out "c:\NavigationTemplate.xml" -Handlers Navigation

Then remove the CurrentNavigation from the template (c:\NavigationTemplate.xml). And then apply that template to all sub sites.

Connect-PnPOnline -Url "<URL to site where you have configured the global navigation>" -Credentials $cred
$subWebs = Get-PnPSubWebs -Recurse 

foreach($web in $subWebs){
    $web.Navigation.UseShared = $false
    $web.Update()
    $web.Context.ExecuteQuery()

    Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path "c:\NavigationTemplate.xml" -Handlers Navigation -Web $web -ClearNavigation
}

This is not tested, and is just an example of how you could do this by PowerShell.