The Right way to export and import SPO Site?

[rikumus]

Hi,

In past we have been using PnP to distribute static SPO communication site to our clients. The site contains just text and pictures.
This has been working with the following cmdlets:

Connecting, and then exporting the site from our environment:
Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Out template.xml -IncludeAllClientSidePages -PersistBrandingFiles

Connecting, and then importing the site to client's environment (a fresh communication site is created first):
Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -path template.xml

That worked very well, for a while.

I assume this should be still possible, just the cmdlets has been updated:

Get-PnPSiteTemplate -Out template.xml -IncludeAllClientSidePages -PersistBrandingFiles

and

Invoke-PnPSiteTemplate -Path template.xml

And PS Core 7.1 seems to work better with these, at least for me. In PS 5.1 I got some fancy errors, like:
Get-PnPSiteTemplate : Method not found: 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ConfiguredValueTaskAwaitable'1<Boolean> Enumerator.MoveNextAsync()'.

Can some one confirm that this is the right and tested approach that should work, with the updated cmdlets?

[rikumus]

Finally I got this one resolved. Basically the export and import of SPO Site works just as described in my original post. However, PnP.PowerShell requires few things to be aligned with the stars:

• Use the latest PS Core version (not PS 5.1 etc)
• Use the latest PnP.PowerShell version
• Use the updated version of cmdlets
• Do not use any old exports (this is not so nice, if you are planning to restore something from older backups)
• Check the documentation every now and then if it's updated

When it works, it's pure gold ;)