Create a Content Type Hub Database

I like to have my Content Type Hub Site Collection in its own database. Here is the code/example to create a database for the content type hub.

Example

$CTHDBName = “ContentTypeHub_DB”

$WebApplicationURL = “http://SharePointRandy/”

New-SPContentDatabase -Name ContentTypeHub_DB -WebApplication $WebApplicationURL

Further reading http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607572.aspx

Create a Managed Path

As I want my Content Type Hub to be at the root of my Web Application (http://<webapplication>/contenttypehub) I need to create a managed path. The PowerShell to do this is here:

Example

$RelativeURL = “/ContentTypeHub”

$WebApplicationURL = “http://SharePointRandy/”

New-SPManagedPath -RelativeURL $RelativeURL -WebApplication $WebApplicationURL
-Explicit

Further reading http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607693.aspx

Create Content Type Hub Site Collection

It is easy to create a Content Database through the GUI but to ensure it is located in the database just created it is easier to do in PowerShell with the –ContentDatabase Parameter.

Example

$CTHurl = “http://SharePointRandy/ContentTypeHub”

$CTHOwnerAlias = “<domain>\<user>”

$CTHTemplate = “STS#1″

$CTHDBName = “ContentTypeHub_DB”

New-SPSite -Url $CTHurl -OwnerAlias $CTHOwnerAlias -Template $CTHTemplate -ContentDatabase $CTHDBName

Further reading http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607937.aspx

As I don’t want to use the Content Type Hub Site Collection for anything else I like to prevent further Site Collections being created in the Content Type Hub database. To do this, run the following PowerShell:

Example

$CTHDBName = ContentTypeHub_DB

Set-SPContentDatabase -Identity $CTHDBName -Status Offline

Further reading http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607912.aspx

Activate Content Type Syndication Hub

You need to activate the Content Type Syndication Hub feature to allow the Managed Metadata Service Application to connect to the Content Type Hub Site Collection.

$CTHurl = “http://SharePointRandy/ContentTypeHub”

Enable-SPFeature -Identity 9a447926-5937-44cb-857a-d3829301c73b -Url $CTHurl

Connect the Managed Metadata Service Application to the Content Type Hub

To connect the Managed Metadata Service Application to the Content Type Hub you need to use the command Set-SPMetadataServiceApplication. I’ll explain this in another blog post but for now see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607738.aspx

Sessions:

• Symon Garfield- Working Together: The Secrets of Collaboration and  Enterprise Social Computing with SharePoint 2010
• Giles Hamson – Integration of Project Server and SharePoint 2010: Not just another Managed Service within SharePoint

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The first was by Jess Meats (http://blogs.technet.com/b/jessmeats/ ) on InfoPath. She demonstrated a number of the improvements to InfoPath as well as highlighted some of the general functionality.

The Second presentation was by Peter Baddeley (www.baddaz.com). Peter took showed how quickly it was possible to build business tools on top of SharePoint Foundation 2010 and how it has improved since WSS 3.0.
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