Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices graphics presentation

During past years we have created significant amount of different graphics for different usage scenarios explaining Office 365 and SharePoint usage. I do get quite often questions around on where do we get these graphics and how others could use them. Personally I do not really use drawings from others, so I have drawn majority of them by myself and actually not using Visio, rather PowerPoint. I do love spend time at the PowerPoint every now and a while, which is a nice break from writing code or other activities.

There are great Visio stencils out there for providing consistency cross your presentations like following.

• New Office Visio Stencil – Updated on 1st of October 2015
• Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise Symbol / Icon Set – 22nd of October 2015

Like mentioned, in my case I rarely use Visio for actual drawing, since you can’t really create high quality drawings in Visio and paste them to presentations or Word documents efficiently. Also if you use Visio for your drawings, it’s really hard to create step-by-step animations at PowerPoint. This is why I personally use Visio stencils mainly for getting consistent graphics, but actually draw content using PowerPoint. Here’s quick collage of some of the graphics to show you what’s being available. Typically I start by copying needed key elements from existing drawing and then shuffling them around based on the current requirements.

To enable as easy as possible easy reuse, I’ve just uploaded a so called graphics deck to Office 365 Dev PnP docs.com location. This means that you can download the presentation and easily use any of the slides or graphics anyway you want wherever you like. If you are looking for actual training material around the topics covered in some of the graphics, please see separate blog post around PnP transformation training at dev.office.com blog. This training package contains videos, presentations, demos and hands on labs for you to reuse. Graphics deck also contains tens of other drawings from other areas where I’ve been involved, so not just the PnP material.

PnP presentation graphics—Office 365 Dev PnP

Hopefully, that’s useful for someone and have fun at PowerPoint.

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Comments

• Anonymous
  October 27, 2015
  This is awesome Vesa. Thanks so much for sharing. I work on Office 365 related architecture documents all the time and like you have always preferred PowerPoint over Visio. This will be a very useful reference. Cheers!

• Anonymous
  October 27, 2015
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• Anonymous
  October 27, 2015
  Very useful! Good one Vesa, thanks :)

• Anonymous
  October 27, 2015
  Great stuff!! Without, one of the stuff came out of the PnP.. Thanks for Sharing..

• Anonymous
  October 27, 2015
  Good stuff! Thanks for sharing

• Anonymous
  October 27, 2015
  Simply awesome....

• Anonymous
  October 28, 2015
  Thanks for sharing! Same as Merill Fernando You're my super-hero :)

• Anonymous
  October 02, 2016
  Super!

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2019
  the link to the powerpoint template with the deck is broken and am unable to download the ppt.would one of you be so kind to let me know where I can find the deck?regards,Ramana

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2019
    The links to the original file are all broken, but in the slideshow viewer, click the Menu button, then choose to Download a copy.
  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2019
    See updated blog post at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vesku/2019/01/21/updated-sharepoint-patterns-and-practices-graphics-presentation/. There's no way to keep all the old blog posts up to date with the URL changes.

• Anonymous
  January 23, 2019
  @Vesa, thanks for doing this. Since this post is over three years old and the links are broken to the original file, is there an updated version somewhere?

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2019
    See latest blog post - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vesku/2019/01/21/updated-sharepoint-patterns-and-practices-graphics-presentation/. There's, unfortunately, no way to keep all old blog article links up to date.