{"id":627,"date":"2013-04-30T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T08:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/?p=627"},"modified":"2013-04-30T08:28:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T08:28:49","slug":"managed-metadata-columns-fail-to-sync-from-office-client-apps-and-sharepoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/04\/managed-metadata-columns-fail-to-sync-from-office-client-apps-and-sharepoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Managed Metadata Columns fail to sync from Office Client apps and SharePoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a few occasions now I&#8217;ve dealt with clients that are having problems syncing Managed Metadata Columns between the Office 2010 client applications and SharePoint. It&#8217;s unclear how this problem has come about, and due to the fact that a lot of people don&#8217;t seem to use the Document Information Panel unless doing heavy Enterprise Content Management processing it doesn&#8217;t seem to be picked up straight away. We only really noticed it at the first client because the Harmon.IE outlook plug-in was unable to update MMS properties.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read tons of blog posts and various fixes across the internet, some suggestions to re-push the Content Types from the Hub, others suggesting turning on and off features, however the simplest fix I found was just to add a new MMS column and then delete it. (Apologies, but I cannot find the blog post where the Author suggested this after a PSS call with Microsoft!)<\/p>\n<p>My colleague (Alex Brassington) and I tested it, and lo and behold this fixed our issue. Now we just had to roll the fix out across some 18,000 documents in a major ECM application. This is where Alex&#8217;s far superior PowerShell skills came to the fore and he wrote a very good script to bulk update the selected libraries in our system.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to re-write his entire post here as he&#8217;s done a very good job of laying out he problem and the scripts that you can use to good effect to fix the problem are all available for you on <a href=\"http:\/\/alexbrassington.com\/?p=44\" title=\"Managed Metadata Columns fail to sync between SharePoint and client apps.\">his blog post here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy<\/p>\n<p>Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a few occasions now I&#8217;ve dealt with clients that are having problems syncing Managed Metadata Columns between the Office 2010 client applications and SharePoint. 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