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Define and publish content types in a Multi-Geo tenant

Customers use the content type hub to define content types in a central ___location, and then publish the content types to all sites in a SharePoint tenant. This article explains how the content type hub works in a SharePoint Multi-Geo tenant.

A Multi-Geo tenant has one content type hub per geo ___location. To define content types for each geo ___location, you create and publish them from the following site.

https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/contenttypehub

There is, however, an important distinction between the content type hub in the default geo ___location and in satellite geo locations.

When you create and publish a content type in the content type hub of the default geo ___location, that content type is available in all sites in your tenant. In the example shown in the following image, content types created in the default North America geo ___location (contenttype1 and contenttype2) are pushed to all sites across the satellite geo locations for the tenant. Content types created in the content type hub for the Europe satellite ___location (contenttype3 and contenttype4) are only pushed to the sites in the European geo ___location.

World map showing that content types in the North America default geo ___location apply to all sites, and content types in the Europe and Asia satellite locations apply only to those geo locations

Most organizations want to have consistent content types across a SharePoint tenant. As a best practice, use the content type hub in the default geo ___location to create and publish content types.

If you don't want all content types in the default geo ___location content type hub to be published to all geo locations, you can use the Set-SPOTenantContentTypeReplicationParameters PowerShell cmdlet to configure the content types that you do want to publish. This cmdlet is part of the SharePoint Online Management Shell.

As an alternative to using a content type hub, organizations can integrate content type provisioning into their site provisioning solutions. This offers more flexibility and can be fully automated.

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