Pro SharePoint 2010 Administration

Content Type Hubs

Content types provide a powerful classification of content in SharePoint, whether it's a document, list item, publishing page, or external data. Pretty much all content in SharePoint involves content types somewhere. SharePoint 2007 introduced content types, and users of SharePoint have never looked back since. However, in SharePoint 2007, content types had a major limitation—the scope of a content type went no higher than a site collection. SharePoint best practice is to use multiple site collections in large content systems to distribute content across content databases. This made for a major headache in managing content types in a large enterprise content management system. SharePoint 2010 solves this issue with content type ...