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A content type is a reusable collection of columns and settings that can be applied to a certain category of SharePoint content

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Sharepoint Content Type - Adding a new one

Before you add a custom content type, you usually create site columns that meet your needs. See http://SiteCollectionURL/_layouts/15/mngfield.aspx where you add custom site columns.
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add existing content type to document library

Running Powershell and accessing a Subsite (and not the root web) you have to make a slightly different approach. You need to access the root web content type, and add that one to the subsite document …
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Can Sealed Content Types Be Deleted or Modified Programatically

Sealed Optional Boolean. TRUE to prevent changes to this content type. You cannot change the value of this attribute through the user interface, but you can change it in code if you have sufficient r …
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If a Child Site breaks inheritance from Parent Site, will Parent site Content Types still be...

Permission inheritance, and the breaking of inheritance, is in the realm of user access. A user authenticates herself to the environment, usually Active Directory, which verifies that the user is auth …
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PowerShell script for finding the site columns associated with a content type

Didn't get Amals script to work, but used this instead. The real difference is $ct = $web.AvailableContentTypes. # Find all content types that use that column type # This will display all content t …
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Content type with template from different site collection

To share Content Types between Site Collections, you usually implement a Content Type Hub. The CT Hub publishes Content Types, which other Site Collections can subscribe to. That way the get the same …
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Programatically update field/column name in a list on all sub sites [Powershell]

Have you tried something like this? $snapin = Get-PSSnapin | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell'} if ($snapin -eq $null) { Write-Host "Loading SharePoint Powershell …
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Modern Document Library doesn’t use default Content Type

As it turns out, these "content types" comes from Office Online Server (formerly knows as, Office WebApps Server). The only way to change them is by adding custom content types. That goes from reorder …
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Modern Document Library doesn’t use default Content Type

When creating a new document library and selecting Document Template “None” or “Microsoft Word Document” (which is default), you get a list of office document template to choose from when you create a …
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Folder in Folder Content Types

Create your own Content Type (MyFolder) which inherits from folder. Add your newly created MyFolder to your library, and you're good to go.
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Creating a New Site Content Type which have the built-in Discussion CT as its parent , will ...

When you inherit Content Types, you should inherit as is. Otherwise you'll lose functionality of the default content type and breaks internal dependencies. That's the whole point of inheritance. Eithe …
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Migrate Content Types and Site Columns

Yes, through PowerShell. Phil Childs posted the article Export and import/create site columns in SharePoint using PowerShell back in 2011. Basically you export your site columns to an XML-file in you …
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Powershell doesn't output contenttype

Instead of using $CT = $item.ContentType try using $CT = $item["ContentType"]
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Change Content Type for all sub sites and lists/libraries

Typically you would create a template for the use when creating site. You don't have to create a new Document Library, simply add the Content Type with metadata, and remove the default "document" CT. …
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