Who likes creating SharePoint site definitions from scratch? Well, it's not my favorite part of the SharePoint development either. An initially good idea of setting up your whole site through an XML file, received implementation and support far from being perfect. That quickly lead developers to look for alternative ways of defining and provisioning sites, primarily through the SharePoint API. A simple ONET.XML with beefy code-packed features became de-facto standard. What was supposed to be a template became compiled code. I was hoping SharePoint 2013 would at least attempt to do something about it… Tasked with creating a few publishing portal site definitions, I was unpleasantly surprised to find out that any attempt to use my new site definition to provision a site collection root results in both Global and Current Navigation switched to "Managed Navigation" mode, while I needed it to stay in the good old "Structural Navigation" one. This mode is new to Sh