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Copper Contributor

Aug 23, 2019

Deleted Content Type Reappearing

Hi All, I'm a relative newby to the Content Type Syndication Hub in O365 SharePoint Online. I have opened the hidden hub site and built some content types which I then needed to delete. The conte...

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paulpascha

Bronze Contributor

Aug 27, 2019

Before deleting a Published Content Type from your Content Type Hub you should Unpublish it to prevent it from being recreated the next time the Content Types are syndicated by a background process (Timer Job).

The blog below explains the above in more detail:
https://www.contentprecedesdesign.net/2014/06/sharepoint-content-type-publishing-delete-vs-unpublish.html

JustinR
Copper Contributor
Aug 27, 2019
paulpaschathanks for your reply, yeah I already figured that out, but a little too late. I have no idea about PowerShell so I am trying to get any ideas on how to reimplement the CTs with the same ID.

Thanks again.