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Can PnP Provisioning preserve SharePoint List GUIDs across environments?
I am using PnP Framework 1.15.1 with the 2022/09 Provisioning Schema to provision SharePoint Online lists. After applying the provisioning template, I noticed that all newly created lists have di...
PnP Provisioning does not preserve SharePoint list GUIDs (SPList.Id). Each provisioned list is created as a new SharePoint list, and SharePoint automatically assigns a new GUID. There is no supported option in the PnP Provisioning schema or framework past or present to specify or retain the original list GUID during provisioning.
The behavior is expected and by design, and there is no supported mechanism in PnP Provisioning or the SharePoint client APIs to preserve the original list GUID during provisioning.