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Configuring metadata with SharePoint's Term Store

Configuring metadata with SharePoint's Term Store - SharePoint Tutorial

From the course: SharePoint Admin Essential Training

Configuring metadata with SharePoint's Term Store

- [Instructor] I mentioned this in passing earlier in the course, but it's time to take a closer look. Let's talk about the term store. A well-organized term store is essential for effective metadata management in SharePoint. Metadata powers navigation, search, and content classification, ensuring that users can find and use information efficiently. The term store lives in the SharePoint admin center and it acts as the central repository for metadata across all SharePoint sites. Think of it as the dictionary for your organization, defining standardized labels, tags, and keywords. These terms can be reused across sites, providing consistency and improving search results. As SharePoint admin, your role is to support the creation and management of terms, term sets and groups in the term store. While you don't control all aspects of taxonomy design, you are a part of implementing and maintaining the structures decided upon by your organization. SharePoint admins can create and manage term…

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