Changes to SharePoint Online Content Types

[Haniel Croitoru]

It seemed that there was an issue of content types not being available on new tenants.  However, after digging deeper (and with the help of some peers on the forum), it turns out that for some reason the content types would be available by default for some site collections without the publishing features explicitly turned on while others they didn't.

The content types affected by this were as follows: 

The recent changes introduced to SharePoint Online have resulted in a number of deprecated content types.  In particular, the deprecated pages seem to focus largely around Pages, Display Templates, as well as some other publishing-related content types.  Based on a quick comparison of a newly-provisioned Office 365 tenant and one that has been live for about 2 years, the following content types have been deprecated:

Page-related Content Types

Content Type	ID
Article Page	0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF3900242457EFB8B24247815D688C526CD44D
ASP NET Master Page	0x0101000F1C8B9E0EB4BE489F09807B2C53288F0054AD6EF48B9F7B45A142F8173F171BD1
Enterprise Wiki Page	0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39004C1F8B46085B4D22B1CDC3DE08CFFB9C
Error Page	0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF3900796F542FC5E446758C697981E370458C
Html Master Page	0x0101000F1C8B9E0EB4BE489F09807B2C53288F0054AD6EF48B9F7B45A142F8173F171BD10003D357F861E29844953D5CAA1D4D8A3A
Html Page Layout	0x01010007FF3E057FA8AB4AA42FCB67B453FFC100E214EEE741181F4E9F7ACC43278EE8110003D357F861E29844953D5CAA1D4D8A3B
Page	0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39
Page Layout	0x01010007FF3E057FA8AB4AA42FCB67B453FFC100E214EEE741181F4E9F7ACC43278EE811
Page Output Cache	0x010087D89D279834C94E98E5E1B4A913C67E
Project Page	0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39004C1F8B46085B4D22B1CDC3DE08CFFB9C0055EF50AAFF2E4BADA437E4BAE09A30F8
Redirect Page	0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF3900FD0E870BA06948879DBD5F9813CD8799
System Master Page	0x0101000F1C8B9E0EB4BE489F09807B2C53288F
System Page	0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2
System Page Layout	0x01010007FF3E057FA8AB4AA42FCB67B453FFC1
Welcome Page	0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF390064DEA0F50FC8C147B0B6EA0636C4A7D4

Display Template-related Content Types 

Content Type	ID
Item Display Template	0x0101002039C03B61C64EC4A04F5361F385106603
Control Display Template	0x0101002039C03B61C64EC4A04F5361F385106601
Filter Display Template	0x0101002039C03B61C64EC4A04F5361F385106604
Group Display Template	0x0101002039C03B61C64EC4A04F5361F385106602

Other Deprecated Content Types 

Content Type	ID
PSWApprovalTask	0x0108010038A52C27344148C9B9214F82C7C02985
Published Link	0x01004613D6562E4C41A7B9DADDAC1689E00D
Reusable HTML	0x01002CF74A4DAE39480396EEA7A4BA2BE5FB
Reusable Text	0x01004D5A79BAFA4A4576B79C56FF3D0D662D
Translation Package	0x010100E8711F0F931646FA949751442A907B22
Translation Status	0x01010000DEC92EFE5D445789D9FE4A3225A381
Catalog-Item Reuse	0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF3900B46186789C3140CC85BE610336E86BBB
Device Channel	0x01009AF87C5C1DF34CA38277FEABCB5018F6
Device Channel Mappings	0x010100FDA260FD09A244B183A666F2AE2475A6
PowerPoint Template	0x0101005A249C3ECCF7B64DBDA2869E1C7C26DA
Excel Template	0x010100F36B8B25653D5F4F80AE21B9D721C584
Word Template	0x0101004624CB2A1019B6458DE445B919BFA4EA

Keep this list handy as these changes may impact solutions that leverage the content types or inherit from them.

[#2]

Hi Haniel,

i am not sure if i understand what you are saying. You say these content types are not available anymore in a new tennant? did you have exact same features on etc.

it is hard to believe all of them are depreciated as they are still being used and no announcements have been made arround these content types.

Kr,

Paul

[#3]

Hi Paul,

I also find it hard to believe and am investigating this further.  The tenant I created was a demo tenant and have followed the same steps I've followed many times before on previous tenants.  There are other anomalies I've noticed (such as the inability to activate Sandbox solutions), so maybe there's something that needs to be configured to bring back the old functionality.  

[#4]

Hi Haniel,

curious what the results will be and be sure the tennant is not in service mode as for example last friday there was a problem getting into SharePoint..

keep posting your work please!

Kr,

Paul

[#5]

These content types would only exist if the new tenant has the Publishing Infrastructure feature activated. Is the Publishing Infrastructure feature activated?

[#6]

What does this mean exactly? Does the content types just disappear? What will happen to the content created by these content types? Is there a way to still use them?

[#7]

Hi Doug,

Interestingly, I have compared two tenants that had site collections that weren't based on the publishing tempalte nor did they have the features turned on.  Yet one had these content types and the other didn't.  

To avoid confusion for others reading this post, I will update the message.

Thanks for your input. 

[#8]

Hi Haniel,

Could it be that you had the publishing feature activated on the old site and deactivated it later. This could be the issue that the content types are in the old site and not in the new one.

kr,

Paul