Just a quick tip here.
You cannot use the Publishing Portal to create root site collections in Office 365. According to Microsoft support this option may be removed in the future as the site collection provisioning process hangs.
If you do happen to accidently use the Publishing Portal as your root site collection then you will need to open a ticket with Microsoft support and have that escalated to the operations team so that they can delete the site collection for you.
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Cory Peters is the Chief SharePoint Architect at Eastridge Technology, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Winston-Salem, NC.
Cory Peters: Hey Olivier,
I would recommend the Master Page or even a Content Ed...
Olivier: Hi Cory, thank you, just one question, my skills neing limited, I'd li...
Rene: Excellent! Didn't know how to do the second step automatically, really...
Cory Peters: That's what I was told over the phone by Microsoft Office 365 support....
Jasper Oosterveld: Hi,
Is this really true? I am amazed if this won't be supported any...
Hi,
Is this really true? I am amazed if this won’t be supported anymore.
That’s what I was told over the phone by Microsoft Office 365 support. You can still reach the same goal by starting with another template and turning on publishing and creating sub sites but let’s hope they just fix it rather than disable it.