Change the HUB URI for the managed metadata hub

Content type hub is a feature which is widely used by many companies to operate and govern their content types used across SharePoint setup. This allowed IT administrators to control the types of content with the organization, and make it more searchable and organized.  This also helps them in restricting contributors to create or build ad hoc information in system.One of my customer had a scenario where the wanted to upgrade the Content type hub to SP2013 setup. This is not a straight forward operations due to the fundamentals of publishing content to subscribing site collections. To know more about this, please follow this link. It is really important to understand what exactly your customer scenario is and then further you can plan the upgrade. By tweaking few small requirement, lots of effort can be saved and importantly, the complexity is reduced. Further, coming back to the current topic. After the upgrade was completed and after couple of month, there was a requirement to change the HUB URI of the managed metadata service. This is a quite straight forward scenario, but this requires few “After” steps. First of all, make sure that, the HUB URL is unselected in the Managed Metadata proxy properties.

 

For Reference, below PowerShell can be used to update the managed metadata service hub uri

Set-SPMetadataServiceApplication -Identity "Managed Metadata Sercvice" -HubUri "New URL"

Once the New Hub URI is set, It is important that the content types needs to be republished to ensure that the HUB Uri will become effective for all the content published.