The content type hub feature in SharePoint 2010 came as a result of the necessity to share content type definitions across one or more sites in your SharePoint farm.
After all, as we have seen in Chapter 7, Managing SharePoint Site Content in Bulk using PowerShell, content types require provisioning of related fields and logic which are used throughout your site.
If you have several site collections in your farm, which is true even if you're using just a record center and an intranet, you will need to ensure your content types are all in sync so that routing rules on the record center site are working in sync with the metadata of incoming files.
In this recipe, we'll take a look at how PowerShell can help you with configuring a content type hub in the scenario where we have an Intranet site and the corporate portal.
Assuming you are already using a virtual development environment as described in Chapter 1, PowerShell...