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I know that others prefer drawing tools such as Draw.io but Visio offers an amazing amount of capability from a programmatic perspective. This is my driving factor behind this project. My process and methodology Project ultimate goal Function > Ease of use > Form With permission (and the only caveat that I maintain an up to date collection) from the Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise team to build an icon collection based on the publicly available icons, I built a fully programmatic method to build a stencil collection using SVG's as the source icons. With these limitations and the lack of standardized up to date stencils I set out on a personal mission to build my own functional, relevant and as up to date as possible Visio stencil for anyone to use.

Lack of programmability (having icons in a stencil allows you to leverage PowerShell or other languages to programmatically draw diagrams).

Import size is dependent on the source SVG view box and scale (depending on the source file, when it is dropped onto a drawing it may need to be down/up sized to match the scale of other icons).

No properly positioned text field (when adding descriptive text to the icon Visio will place the text at the center of the icon, requiring manual repositioning).No connection points (when you draw a line from icon A to icon B, Visio will either attach the line to the icon edge or the center).The issue however when working with Visio is that functionality wise these icons are tedious to work with. SVG's can easily be imported into Visio and due to the file format supporting raster scaling with no loss of image quality these icons work great.

Unfortunately my search came up short and I found that Microsoft had shifted from providing Visio stencils in favor of more application generic Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) icons for Azure services and configuration items. Over a year ago I set out to locate current, up to date and relevant Visio stencils for Azure with the intent on building reference architecture patterns for Azure services that could be used as templates for design material. Visio remains to this day an industry standard for the depiction of IT infrastructure from both a conceptual and design perspective, over the years I have built diagrams using Visio stencils created by Microsoft and the IT Tech community to convey my ideas accurately and effectively as design documentation.