In this post I am going to put together a list of best practices to consider when setting up a term store in Sharepoint Online. As you may already know term store is collection of term groups. And each term group consists of number term sets. Each term set contains a list/hierarchy of terms. Team group gives the flexibility in terms of access. You can assign permissions to users on their term group, rather than giving them access to the entire store. Always maintain a corporate/general term group which contains common term sets across organization. Every group/business unit should have a term group. Pin the terms from corporate term group as required into Business unit term groups. For example, you plan to maintain list of document types in common term group. Thus, there is a term set created. Marketing department want to use this term set. But, they want to add a few more terms. In this case, you should create another term set in Marketing department term g...
