SharePoint Server 2010 Managed Metadata Service (MMS)

Introducing a new series on Manage Metadata in SharePoint Server 2010! This series explains details about how it works and how you can best leverage it.

This post is part of a series on SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata. It explains how metadata is used to categorize and classify content for search

Part of a series on SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata, discussing the Managed Metadata Service’s powerful term sets feature

The post discusses global and local term sets in SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata, as part of a series on the topic

This post will cover how to take a Managed Metadata Service instance (MMS) and either move or copy it from one environment to another!

This post is part of a series on SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata. The other posts in this series can be found here: SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata In the last year I’ve done a bunch of research around how Microsoft implemented metadata, specifically taxonomies and terms, in SharePoint 2010. This research has lived in a OneNote file for a long time but finally I’ve started to pull it together and put it into something a bit more cohesive and something easier to comprehend and use as a reference.

Learn to create portable columns for SharePoint lists with Managed Metadata. Creating columns in the browser or SharePoint Designer 2010 is not portable