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Our Slides & Demo Code - The Wall: Overcoming SharePoint’s Site Collection Boundary - SPSNE17

Thanks for attending our session at SharePoint Saturday New England, sponsored in part by BlueMetal!

You can download the slide deck here and demo code here.

Pre-Session Playlist

1. Phantoms - Just a Feeling (featuring Vérité)

Our Slides & Demo Code - The Wall: Overcoming SharePoint’s Site Collection Boundary - SPSNYC17

Thanks for attending our session at SharePoint Saturday New York City!

You can download the slide deck here and demo code here.

Pre-Session Playlist

1. Nora En Pure - On the Beach
2. Nora En Pure - Morning Dew
3. Nora En Pure - Saltwater

New Unified Taxonomy for SharePoint Hybrid

With SharePoint Feature Pack 1 (November 2016 Public Update), Microsoft has addressed a key shortcoming in maintaining enterprise managed metadata across SharePoint Online in Office 365 and an on-premises environment. In preview, this feature allows one to now be able to implement a taxonomy across SharePoint Server 2016 (or SharePoint Server 2013) and SharePoint Online. Enterprise content managers... rejoice!

With the availability of this capability, an administrator can now either:

• create new term sets in SharePoint Online and/or
• copy existing term sets from SharePoint Server to SharePoint Online with Windows PowerShell,

then have them replicated daily in a read-only state back to SharePoint Server. This means that you can create your 'master taxonomy' from your existing taxonomies while maintaining the GUIDs of the terms, term sets, and term groups.

While this is a huge step in being able to maintain a comprehensive enterprise information architecture in a hybrid SharePoint configuration, what is still lacking here is a master Content Type Hub where content types could be published in SharePoint Online and be subscribed to both from there and from SharePoint Server. This would complete the paradigm for managing content types and site columns that potentially map to those term sets that would now available universally with this new unified taxonomy.

Read more about how to set up this capability here.

Related Links

• New Features in November 2016 Public Update for SharePoint Server 2016 (Feature Pack 1) on TechNet
• Plan Hybrid SharePoint Taxonomy
• Hybrid Taxonomy on TechNet Forums

Office Visio Stencil for Exchange Server, Skype for Business, and SharePoint Server

Our friends at Microsoft have helped us information architects out with some official Visio shapes for SharePoint. IT Pros and Farm Admins certainly will benefit as well.

Creating visual representations of your Microsoft Office and Office 365 architectures, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business is a helpful way to communicate your deployment. These Visio stencils provide more than 300 icons -- many depicting servers, server roles, services and applications -- that you can use in architecture diagrams, charts, and posters. These icons are primarily centered around deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Skype for Business, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 as well as hybrid Office 365 deployments of aforementioned technologies. 

The zip file now includes both stencil sets from 2012 and 2014.

Office Visio Stencil