Microsoft Integration and Azure Stencils Pack for Visio: New major version available (v7.0.0)

To be honest, when someone tells me, “these stencils look fantastic, but they are unusable or worthless because…”, my brain goes into overdrive. At that point, I cannot rest until I fix the problem and make the resources truly usable 🙂.

That said, I have been using these stencils for a long time. Originally, I created them for myself. However, I always knew they were not perfect. The main challenge was the sheer number of icons, which made fixing them a time‑consuming task.

Over time, more people started using the stencils and reporting issues. As a result, I decided to address all problems once and for all. Today, I am happy to announce that I have closed all open issues reported in the GitHub repository.

What’s new in this version?

These are the list of changes and additions present in this major release:

• Restructure of Visio Stencils files (.vssx) names: the package now contains 26 Visio Stencils files.
  • Some of them were renamed: PowerApps and Flow are now Power Platform; Files is now Files and Message Types Stencils, …
  • Some were merged: Power BI was merged into the new Power Platform Visio Stencil file; Azure Others was merged into the Azure Additional or Support Stencils; Office 365 is now Office, Office 365, and Dynamics 365…
  • New Visio Stencils files: MIS Black and Cyan and MIS Azure Black and Gray;
    • New Organisational Stencils file added by Jacob Mansfield.
• New shapes: New shapes were added to most Visio stencil files (.vssx). Probably the most affected were Azure Stencils and Office, Office 365, and Dynamics 365.
• Text annotations and connector points: The issues regarding text annotations (legend appears in the center of the icon instead of below) and connector points (lack of proper connect points) are now solved in all the Visio stencil files (.vssx). This was a massive work!
• Order of the icons: all icons appear in alphabetical order within the Visio Stencil file, except for the first few, which, in some cases, contain the main shape of the context, like in Microsoft Integration Stencils, where the first icon is the BizTalk Server Logo.
• Automation: add 3 PowerShell scripts to this package for you to:
  • Standardize all SVG filenames available in all subfolders by:
    • Not using spaces. Some software will not recognize file names with spaces, and file names with spaces must be enclosed in quotes when using the command line. Having spaces in URL’s are also not a good experience and should be avoided. For all these reasons, I decided to remove all spaces and replace it will ‘-‘ (dash).
    • Names are in Camel case, where the first letter of each section of text is capitalized (of course respecting the line above), e.g., File-Name.svg.
    • Having extension in lowercase, e.g., *.svg.
    • List all the detected duplicate files.
  • Automatically install (configure) all the Visio files (*.vssx), so that next time you open Visio, they will be available.
  • And also the possibility to download the most recent version from GitHub and install it locally;
• Standardize shape sizes: standardize the shape sizes across all Visio Stencils files so they are more to less the same.
• Fixed some minor stencil layouts.
• SVG files: new SVG files added.

These changes were a massive job that stole all my free time apart from my work and family time, over the past three weeks! So I hope you appreciate it!

Microsoft Integration, Azure, Power Platform, Office 365, and much more Stencils Pack

Overall, the Microsoft Integration, Azure, Power Platform, Office 365, and much more Stencils Pack is a Visio package that contains fully resizable shapes and icons. As a result, it helps you visually represent on‑premises, cloud, or hybrid integration and enterprise architecture scenarios.

For example, you can model solutions that include BizTalk Server, API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, and Event Hubs. Additionally, the package supports solution diagrams and system features built on Microsoft Azure and other cloud and on‑premises technologies using Visio 2016 and 2013:

• BizTalk Server
• Microsoft Azure
  • Integration
    • Integration Service Environments (ISE)
    • Logic Apps and Azure App Service in general (API Apps, Web Apps, and Mobile Apps)
    • Azure API Management
    • Messaging: Event Hubs, Event Grid, Service Bus, …
  • Azure IoT and Docker
  • AI, Machine Learning, Stream Analytics, Data Factory, Data Pipelines
  • SQL Server, DocumentDB, CosmosDB, MySQL, …
  • and so on
• Microsoft Power Platform
  • Microsoft Flow
  • PowerApps
  • Power BI
• Office 365, SharePoint,…
• DevOps and PowerShell
• Security and Governance
• And much more…
• … and now non-related Microsoft technologies like:
  • SAP Stencils

The Microsoft Integration Stencils Pack is composed of 27 files:

• Microsoft Integration Stencils
• MIS Additional or Support Stencils
• MIS AI and Machine Learning Stencils
• MIS Apps and Systems Logo Stencils
• MIS Azure Additional or Support Stencils
• MIS Azure Black and Gray
• MIS Azure Old Versions
• MIS Azure Stencils
• MIS Black and Cyan
• MIS Buildings Stencils
• MIS Databases and Analytics Stencils
• MIS Deprecated Stencils
• MIS Developer Stencils
• MIS Devices Stencils
• MIS Files and Message Types Stencils
• MIS Generic Stencils
• MIS Infrastructure and Networking Stencils
• MIS Integration Fun
• MIS Integration Patterns Stencils
• MIS IoT Stencils
• MIS Office, Office 365, and Dynamics 365
• MIS Power BI Stencils
• MIS Power Platform Stencils
• MIS SAP Stencils
• MIS Security and Governance
• MIS Servers (Hexagonal) Stencils
• MIS Users and Roles Stencils
• Organisational Stencils

That you can use and resize without losing quality, in particular, the new shapes.

Download

You can download the Microsoft Integration, Azure, BAPI, Office 365, and much more Stencils Pack for Visio from GitHub:

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