We use the SharePoint Online Content Type Hub extensively as the central location to create, manage and distribute content types throughout our SharePoint Online tenant. We recently saw an issue with the distribution of one of the content types defined in the Content Type Hub which had a specific PowerPoint template …

Design of SharePoint content Types for SharePoint, and in particular SharePoint Online is very important. Care must be taken to ensure that the design is appropriate for the environment as changes made later can impose significant management overheads. In particular, if a Content Type is put to use (I.e. is assigned to …

Extending some of the default content types available in SharePoint 2010 can result in unwanted fields being shown. An example is extending the 'Event' default content type, which has three fields attached which you don't seem to be able to edit: In particular, many users would like to remove the Workspace field from …

There are a number of ways of generating Custom Content Types for SharePoint, some more difficult than others. One of the easiest ways is to create your own using the SharePoint GUI interface via a web browser, however while a nice 'point and click' approach, there is no easy way to extract the resultant custom columns …