Many regulated businesses have already implemented SharePoint. As John Holliday demonstrates in a video tutorial set titled SharePoint 2013: Records Management, The metadata tagging features of SharePoint 2007, 2010, and 2013 can be used, successfully, to build a satisfactory records management feature for these organizations. Records management is a key component of an overall compliance […]
Managed Metadata Can Be A Useful Foundation Stone for Any Promising Implementation Plan for SharePoint 2013
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) depends upon taxonomic structures, meaning a set of categories of information, which must be capable of defining the range of significant information (data) produced by an organization. Of course, this structure will vary, perhaps substantially, from organization to organization. As well, the term “significant” will have to be clearly and specifically […]
Revisiting the Role of Metadata for Items Stored in SharePoint Document Libraries
To successfully capture the best possible results from an effort to implement metadata tagging for items stored in SharePoint document libraries, SharePoint administrators should have an understanding of what constitutes metadata in a SharePoint environment, the role of tagging, and how the process of tagging items stored in SharePoint document libraries works. Last, this understanding […]
Understanding Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2013
In a short article titled Overview of managed metadata in SharePoint Server 2013, the Microsoft® TechNet website positions the process of managing metadata within the context of SharePoint Server 2013. It may be helpful to present some of the rationale for implementing a procedure to manage metadata, the Term Store, and a taxonomy for SharePoint […]
Using Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 to Locate Documents
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a video tutorial set on the Term Store, Metadata Tagging and Taxonomy for SharePoint 2010. In a separate video titled Use Managed Metadata for navigating Documents we demonstrate some of the management techniques of this feature at the site collection level. The intended audience for this video are either site administrators […]
With FAST Search Largely Incorporated into SharePoint 2013 Out of the Box Search Service, Implementing Taxonomies Delivers Meaningful Benefits
As we mentioned at the start of this series on search for SharePoint 2013. FAST search, as an added feature, is no longer an option for SharePoint 2013. With the added performance now built into SharePoint 2013’s out of the box search service, we think learning to successfully implement best practices for working with terms, […]
Best Practices for Metadata Tagging for SharePoint 2013 are Consistent with Counterparts for SharePoint 2010
Microsoft provides some recommendations as to how best undertake the task of metadata tagging for SharePoint 2013 in an article on TechNet entitled Overview of managed metadata in SharePoint Server 2013 in this TechNet article. It is worth simply noting that Microsoft demonstrates how the task of metadata tagging is integrated within an implementation of […]
How to Organize Content for Optimum Search for SharePoint 2013
In an article on TechNet, Best practices for organizing content for search in SharePoint Server 2013, Microsoft provides a set of best practices which SharePoint administrators, architects, developers and other stakeholders should follow to ensure that the enterprise search component for SharePoint 2013 produces optimum results. We wish to note that the SharePoint 2010 versions […]
A Technical Overview of Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010
In this series of blog posts we are looking, once again, at a set of video training courses published on SharePoint-Videos dot com during the winter of 2011 and 2012 on SharePoint 2010 Taxonomy. In the first two posts of this series we spent time presenting the value, from a line of business (LOB) perspective, […]
Taxonomy Management is a Must Have Capability for a Successful Implementation of SharePoint
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a set of video training courses on SharePoint 2010 Taxonomy Management. When our VisualSP™ help system has been implemented, teams of SharePoint Administrators, Site Collection Administrators, Developers and Architects will be able to purchase specific training content (including this set of video courses on taxonomy, metadata tagging and the Term Store), […]