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SharePoint 2010 comes with an enhanced mechanism for managing your enterprise contents in SharePoint portal. Managed metadata refers to organizing your SharePoint contents so that they are easily categorizable and searchable. - Metadata and Tagging - Taxonomies - Folksonomies

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Sharepoint TaxonomyField Object

Creating a TaxonomyField goes something like this: var site = SPContext.Current.Site; var web = site.RootWeb; var taxonomySession = new TaxonomySession(site); var termStore = taxonomySession.TermStor …
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How to copy a Managed Metadata Column from one list to another?

When setting the value of Taxonomy Fields always use TaxonomyField.SetFieldValue var sourceValue = sourceItem["SColumn"] as TaxonomyFieldValueCollection; var targetField = targetList.Fields["TColum …
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Managed metadata field is greyed out when deploying a list definition project

TaxonomyFieldType fields are quite complicated to privision: You need two fields a TaxonomyFieldType and a corresponding Note field No need to set the SspId to the Id of the TermStore One guide fr …
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Using powershell to list managed metadata terms

Is it possible: Yes Is is practical: Probably not If you really want the the process will be: Loop thought all WebApplications Loop though all site collections Loop through all sites Loo …
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Deciding Column Type before creating.

Using Managed Metadata makes sense if: The information is hierarchical The choices needs to be shared across site collections and maintained by endusers If the information is flat and you only nee …
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EventHandler for Managed Metadata Terms

There are no way to implement an eventhandler on Managed Metadata terms.
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using TaxonomySession from SharePoint web part and visual web part

Microsodt.SharePoint.Taxonomy.dll isn't supported in Sandboxed solutions For an overview of which parts of SharePoint is available see MSDN article Available and Unavailable SharePoint Assemblies fro …
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Possible to programmatically force timer to run?

You can call SPJobDefinition.RunNow on the right timer job
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Add default data in declarative xml list instances for Taxonomy fields

I don't think it's possible because behind the scene a TaxonomyField is a lookup field into a HiddenList where the DefaultValue item has to be added and then you have to reference the ID of that. So …
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Automatically add tag to uploaded document in sharepoint

I'd set the columns default value using MetadataDefaults.SetFieldDefault. Instead of doing it in PowerShell you can do it in a FeatureReceiver of the feature deploying your document library
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Modify existing lookup type column to managed metadata type

I would not dare to go with your option 2, changing column type isn't generally supported. I would consider a third option: Create a temporary column Move selection into temporary column Delete cho …
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Placeholder for meta tags in the head

If your custom master page has the same ContentPlaceHolders as the default one then you can use PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead this is where a lot of the standard SharePoint pages add meta tags
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Give user write permissions based on meta data tag (s)

It's not available out of the box. But you have a number of options: Put documents in folders with unique permissions If it's a single value that determines who can change the document then you can: …
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What's the best way to exploit a managed metadata column for document keywords?

There is no easy way to do exactly as you describe. BUT why not use metadata navigation in the views of the library? Go to the library In the library tab select "Library settings" Select "Metadata …
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