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My Slides - Making Secured Content Discoverable in SharePoint - SIKM Boston

Thanks for attending my presentation at this month's SIKM Boston meeting!

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My Slides - Making Secured Content Discoverable in SharePoint - ESDDC

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

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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!

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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

My Slides - We Need to Talk: How to Converse with Regular People About Managing Their Content in SharePoint - NHSPUG

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

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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 - We Need to Talk: How to Converse with Regular People About Managing Their Content in SharePoint - Collab365

Thanks for attending my session at Collab365 Global Conference!

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My Slides - An Independent Evaluation of Third-Party SharePoint Analytics Offerings - UCO16

Thanks for attending my session at Unity Connect Online!

You can download the slide deck here and/or watch the video below.

 

Switching Between New and Classic SharePoint Document Library Experiences

Microsoft has released guidance on how tenant and site administrators can enable and disable the new SharePoint document library experience for users. See this article:

Switch the default for document libraries from new or classic

Using this method, I was successfully able to alter the user's experience, but here is a caveat... When you alter the setting in the SharePoint Admin Center:

the effect is not immediately apparent. There is a delay between when you make the change (to either choice) before a user will notice. SharePoint Online must be going through programmatically and changing settings at a library level. For my test, I only have one site with one document library in it in the entire tenant, and it took between 30 and 60 minutes to update.

Also I noticed that Microsoft is calling this setting SharePoint Lists and Libraries Experience, even though the settings provided are only exposed for libraries, not lists. Is more change to come to our list views?

Related Posts

• New SharePoint Document Library Experience (04/19/2016)