Lost the ability to have a generic list of departments added when a new site is created

Lost the ability to have a generic list of departments added when a new site is created

We have 100s of sites with a large list of departments for each site. Most of the time, we keep the departments generic in name to simplify the process. I believe after SD-112649, SD-107047 was applied back in Sept 2023 (Copy Default Settings option is removed. Sites that are already configured with Copy Default Settings option will be updated with Custom Settings configuration to organize and maintain separate configurations for each site. Default site settings will not influence other sites going forward)" , we are no longer able to copy the generic list of departments from our default settings over to a newly created site. We now have to manually create each department needed for every new site that is created. That does sound like a lot but when we have 10 to 15 sites being added a week and then having to manually add 20+ departments for each of them is time consuming. Ideally if they had to remove this functionality they could provide some sort of import function for adding the departments for each site rather than having to manually enter each one every time.

Any thoughts on how we can address this problem or a work around so we don't have back to a fully manual process?

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