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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)

My Slides - Taming Your Taxonomy in SharePoint - SPSNE17

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

You can download the slide deck here.

Pre-Session Playlist

1. Strange Desire - Rollercoaster

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

My Slides - Must Love Term Sets: The New and Improved Managed Metadata Service in SharePoint 2013 - SPSCT15

Thanks for attending my session at SharePoint Saturday Connecticut, sponsored in part by BlueMetal!

You can download the slide deck here.

My Slides - Must Love Term Sets: The New and Improved Managed Metadata Service in SharePoint 2013 - SPSBOS15

Thanks for attending my session at SharePoint Saturday Boston, sponsored in part by BlueMetal!

You can download the slide deck here.

My Slides - Must Love Term Sets: The New and Improved Managed Metadata Service in SharePoint 2013 - NHSPUG

Thanks for attending my presentation at this month's Granite State SharePoint User Group meeting!

You can download the slide deck here.

My Slides - Taming Your Taxonomy in SharePoint - SPSCT14

Thanks for attending my session at the inagural SharePoint Saturday Connecticut!

You can download the slide deck here.

My Slides - Corralling Your Content in SharePoint - ESDDC

Thanks for attending my session at Enterprise Search & Discovery (co-located with KMWorld)!

You can download the slide deck here.

My Slides - Must Love Term Sets: The New and Improved Managed Metadata Service in SharePoint 2013 - SPSNYC14

Thanks for attending my session at SharePoint Saturday New York City, sponsored in part by BlueMetal!

You can download the slide deck here.

Pre-Session Playlist

1. Stereo MCs - Step It Up
2. Pete Yorn - Life on a Chain
3. Dar Williams - I Saw A Bird Fly Away