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Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Development

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for SharePoint 2007 - MCS consultant based in Montreal and working primarily in eastern Canada.
(Updated) Visio Stencils for Sharepoint 2007 Site Structures documentation. Version 0.2.

I've worked a bit on the Visio Stencils I'm using for documenting Site Structures and I fixed the way "text" works with the Site Structure stencil.  You can now simply double-click on it and the text will be correctly modified (not added over it) (note: The icon "Text Block Tool" in Visio is your friend there and very customizable and easier to use).  Also, the connectors will work better since it's only detecting the "rounded" icon and I included some of the built-in Visio annotations & connectors that are essential to a good documentation.

 

Basically, when I do MOSS documentation, I will be doing a complete Site Structure architecture, a Page Layouts (stencil coming soon) documentation, or a server/environment layout.  As mentioned in my earlier blog post, the servers are covered on this other blog.

 

** UPDATE ** : I updated the links since the free file sharing service I used has apparently been hacked.

 

Here's the link to the stencil on my Live SkyDrive :

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This is a quick sample of what you can do for a Site Structure with the previous stencil :

Sample Structure

 

 

I will finish the Page Layouts stencil and post it a bit later.  Cheers!

 

Maxime

Posted: Saturday, October 27, 2007 2:15 PM by MaximeB

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Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Development : Visio Stencils for SharePoint 2007 sites and servers said:

PingBack from http://blogs.msdn.com/maximeb/archive/2007/10/17/visio-stencils-for-sharepoint-2007-sites-servers.aspx

# November 10, 2007 8:08 AM

Bill Morein's Weblog said:

SharePoint has been getting a lot of attention recently, and I've seen a lot of requests for stencils

# November 14, 2007 2:06 PM

Noticias externas said:

SharePoint has been getting a lot of attention recently, and I've seen a lot of requests for stencils

# November 14, 2007 2:38 PM

Dan Lewis's Electric Thoughts on .NET said:

I'm doing some architecture diagrams and site layouts for SharePoint, and came across some great stencils

# November 20, 2007 8:46 AM

Blog Technique de Romelard Fabrice said:

Lorsque l'on travaille sur des projets SharePoint, on utilise rapidement l'outil de schématisation de

# January 19, 2008 9:58 AM

MaximeB said:

I updated the links to use www.rapidshare.com free file download services since the previous one has apparently been hacked.

The downloads should be available now.

Maxime

# January 21, 2008 8:24 AM

MaximeB said:

With the popularity of the stencils, RapidShare stopped sharing my link :)

I updated the post with the link to my Live SkyDrive public folder.

Maxime

# March 10, 2008 8:23 AM

Technical Weblog of Eric Charran said:

Just so I don’t forget, here is a link to some great MOSS Stencils for use in Visio.  This comes

# June 9, 2008 6:19 PM

Novotronix Blog said:

Visio stencil for Sharepoint Site planning

# June 10, 2008 10:58 AM

Dirk Van den Berghe SharePoint Admin Blog said:

Please have a look at Maxime Bombardier's Blog on MSDN Blogs for his article on Visio Stencils for SharePoint

# October 13, 2008 9:57 AM

Dan Lewis said:

I'm doing some architecture diagrams and site layouts for SharePoint, and came across some great stencils

# October 23, 2008 3:59 PM

Mirrored Blogs said:

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