SharePoint 2010 Content Type Hub

§Create a New Site Collection called “ctypehub”, Teamsite Template – Content Type Hub – “http://tpserver/sites/ctypehub”

§Enable the ‘Content Type Syndication Hub’ feature in Site Collection Settings

§Create the Content Types we want to publish out (SPI Base, SPI Training etc.) from the hub

§Update the Metadata Management Service (MMS) properties

–Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage Service Applications then click on the ’Managed Metadata Service’ row and then select ‘Properties

–Scroll to the bottom and type in the full URL of the Site Collection that we have set up as our Site Collection Hub (recommend to copy-paste carefully, this can’t be changed in the UI once its setup, need to use Powershell for modification)

–Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage Service Applications then click on the ’ Managed Metadata Service Connection’ row and then select ‘Properties‘.

–Check ‘Consumes content types from the Content Type Gallery..‘

§Publish the Content Types

–Select the content type we created and click on ‘Manage publishing for this content type‘, click on ‘OK‘ to publish this guy out!

–Go to Central Administration -> Monitoring -> Review Job Definitions and run the Content Type Hub job, then run the Content Type Subscriber job in that order.

§On the main portal, go to Site Settings | Site Collection Administration | Content Type Publishing

You can see all the published content types here J

Happy Friday!!

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