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Background

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.

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. 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.

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. The issue however when working with Visio is that functionality wise these icons are tedious to work with. Some examples of what I mean: -

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

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. 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.

My process and methodology

Project ultimate goal

Function > Ease of use > Form

This is my driving factor behind this project. I know that others prefer drawing tools such as Draw.io but Visio offers an amazing amount of capability from a programmatic perspective. Icons need to not just be pretty images, they need technical function with the ability to be used easily. Proper stencil objects with pre-defined mathematically perfect placed connection points make drawing by hand or script so much easier. The icon itself although important is third on my priority list and will always remain so. I want these stencils to be as useful as possible while maintaining the relevance and breath of Azure services.

First a bit of history for this project

I started with a collection process, gathering as many useful and up to date SVG icons as possible and collating them in a folder with a descriptive naming convention and classification. I initially started by dragging an icon onto the Visio drawing canvas and then adding in connection points for North, East, South and West of the icon and moving the text box to the bottom of the icon. After that I scaled the icon using a guide background box to be either 20mm wide or 20mm high before dropping it into my stencil and entering in it's service name.

Now I am pretty good at performing mundane repetitive operations like this and with a few key bind mappings\macros on a gaming mouse I was able to process each icon in around 45 seconds. Problem was that I had 300 plus icons to work through. Initially I just sucked it up and processed each one manually, after just under four hours and at least 3,600 mouse clicks, I had a functional stencil.

However things started getting messy when Microsoft updated a huge collection of Azure Service icons a short while after I was finished that made my version irrelevant. So I looked for a better way to build this stencil, as I knew that that Microsoft would forever be adding new services to Azure and or refreshing current service icons (which is a good thing by the way!) and I just did not have the time or energy to perform a few thousand mouse clicks after each version update.

My method of building

Enter PowerShell and the Visio COM application method. If you review my version history below you will see that this project has evolved significantly since I started and I have built a full import and conversion process that performs the following.

  1. Scans a build directory for SVG's and sorts a list of icons by name
  2. Launches Visio as a COM application and performs a page drop for the SVG
  3. Gets the current width and height of the icon and scales up or down until either the width or height of the icon is 20mm
  4. Adds Shape data placeholders to support adding metadata when using PowerShell to enumerate Azure resources such as ResourceID for example
  5. Adds connection points to the icon (North, East, South, West, South of Textbox, North East, South East, South West and North West)
  6. Adds a slight drop shadow to the icon (Removed in version 4.6)
  7. Repositions the default text field to the bottom of the icon
  8. Drops the icon into the main stencil and another copy into the by category stencil
  9. Adds metadata to the stencil master such as Name, Hover, Search (Including the category and icon name)
  10. Imports my drawing tools from a stencil
  11. Sorts all of the imported icons into a grid for inspection and then export to PNG as a visual index for the stencil content
  12. Exports out a high resolution PNG and SVG version of the now re-scaled icon for use in other applications
  13. Saves everything to my GitHub Repo staging folder

With this process I can build and re-build over and over again in minutes and this allows me to keep this collection up to date and focus on adding more functionality.

SVG image of the current full stencil content

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Some example images to show stencil functionality: -

Source SVG files

This is where I pick up the source SVG Files, using an _ as a delimiter this allows me to classify the type of icon for the grouping process.

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Connection points

Exact connection points relative to the center of the icon

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Connection point usage

Easily connect to and from the icon in multiple directions

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Shape Data

Coming soon, super awesome programmatic diagram creation. Enumerating resources from Azure and then populating the resources into Visio and adding the relevant metadata to the shape. This unlocks a massive initiative I am working on which is a reverse of this. Design in Visio, add Azure metadata and then push the deployment to Azure via PowerShell.

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Sponsorship

If you would like to support my development or just say thank you! Then check out my Sponsorship page:-

Stencil Usage

Download only what you need or the entire collection using the links below.

Option 1 - Download the single stencil file that contains all of the icons and drawing tools

Option 2 - Download the latest full ZIP package containing all stencils, PNG and SVG versions.

Option 3 - Download just the category stencil files that you need

Option 4 - Don't use Visio?

You also have the PNG and SVG versions of the Icons, they have been scaled the same way as the stencil and can be used in other applications.

Installation

Download the stencil(s) and save to your "My Shapes" folder (normally under "C:\ Users \ %YourUserName% \Documents \My Shapes")

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Special note on Search

A few versions ago I added search metadata to each icon, this was a massive feature add and really tricky to work out via the Visio COM. However after publishing this update I received heaps of feedback that search was not working. I posted a Twitter poll about this and surprisingly 50% responded that search was working!

This is a quirk of Visio going back to 2007 and I figured out the right combination of settings that "should" work for you.

First, ensure that your Windows Search service is actually running

Next, ensure that your Windows Indexing settings for VSSX files is enabled to index content as below.

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Next, ensure your Shapes folder is enabled for indexing.

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Next, ensure that Visio has the following setting under Shape Search to match on any word

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Finally, and this was the main showstopper for many. Visio will only provide results if the Stencil is in English (United States) locale AND (This is the important bit) if you open a new document using US Units of measure then you will receive search results! Metric = No results :(

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To assist in part with the above, in version 3.1 I changed the Stencil locale from English Australia to English United States. Hopefully the other suggestions above will get search working for you and as an example on my Windows 10 with Visio 2016 install, search is working for me.

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Roadmap

See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).

Contact

Twitter is my primary communication method and if you would like to discuss this project, follow me for updates (Including my Azure News bot) or just talk tech in general then add me to your follower list. Alternatively you can do the same via LinkedIn.

Version History

Current

Version 4.5 - 09/02/2024

Apologies, it has been a while since my last update. H2 of last year was quite busy for me.

Drop Shadow has been removed from the Visio stencils, based on community feedback I decided to remove the shadow as it impacted non Visio programs rendering imported icons correctly.

80 new or updated Icons, including the Entra family rebranding.

Category Icon Status
AI AIOps - Data Connector New
AI AIOps - Data LakeHouse New
AI Azure AI Studio New
AI Computer Vision Updated
AI Content Safety New
AI Custom Vision Updated
AI Microsoft Fabric Updated
AI Speech Service Updated
Application APC Gateway New
Application APC Operator API Connection New
Application APC Operator API Plan New
Application API Center New
Application App Spaces New
Application Event Grid Namespace New
Application Integration Environment New
Application Managed CCF App New
Application SignalR Replica New
Application Web PubSub for Socket.IO New
Application Web PubSub Service Replica New
Compute Agent Pool (Operator Nexus) New
Compute Apache Airflow New
Compute AVD App Attach Package New
Compute AVD Application Group New
Compute AVD Per-user Access Pricing New
Compute AVD Scaling Plan New
Compute AVD User Updated
Compute AVD Updated
Compute Azure HDInsight on AKS New
Compute Cluster Manager (Operator Nexus) New
Compute Clusters (Operator Nexus) New
Compute Community Image New
Compute Community Training New
Compute HDInsight on AKS Cluster Pool New
Compute HDInsight on AKS Cluster New
Compute Hybrid AKS Cluster (Operator Nexus) New
Compute Kubernetes Cluster (Operator Nexus) New
Compute Operator Nexus New
Data Data LakeHouse New
Data Data Type New
Data Oracle Database New
Data Oracle Subscription New
Identity Entra Authentication Method Updated
Identity Entra Connect Health Updated
Identity Entra Domain Service Updated
Identity Entra Global Secure Access Updated
Identity Entra ID Governance Updated
Identity Entra ID Updated
Identity Entra Internet Access Updated
Identity Entra Private Access Updated
Identity Entra Updated
Identity Guest Usage Updated
IoT IoT Asset New
Management Azure Arc Custom Location New
Management Azure Arc IoT New
Management Billing Subscription New
Management Bulk Operation New
Management Business Continuity Center New
Management Carbon Emission Details New
Management Carbon Emission Reductions New
Management Carbon Optimisation New
Management Carbon Reductions New
Management Cluster Metrics Configuration (Operator Nexus) New
Management Dashboard Hub New
Management Data Connectors New
Management Extended Security Update New
Management Operator Insights – Data Products New
Management Playwright Testing New
Management Policy Initiative Updated
Management Professional Services New
Management Savings Plan New
Networking Application Gateways for Containers New
Networking Data Collection Endpoint New
Networking IP Address Pool New
Networking Site New
Security Azure Key Vault Managed HSM New
Security BitLocker Key New
Security Cloud NGFW New
Security Local Rulestack for Cloud NGFW New
Storage Storage Actions New
Storage Storage Task New

Previous

Version 4.5 - 09/07/2023

24 new icons including the new Fabric service. I think I need a faster computer now as this build total process is now clocking in at 4 hours.

Category Icon Status
AI Computer Vision Updated
AI Content Safety New
AI Custom Vision Updated
AI Microsoft Fabric New
AI Speech Service Updated
Application App Spaces New
Application Event Grid Namespace New
Application SignalR Replica New
Application Web PubSub Service Replica New
Compute Cluster Manager (Operator Nexus) New
Compute Clusters (Operator Nexus) New
Compute Hybrid AKS Cluster (Operator Nexus) New
Compute Kubernetes Cluster (Operator Nexus) New
Data Data LakeHouse New
Management Billing Subscription New
Management Bulk Operation New
Management Cluster Metrics Configuration (Operator Nexus) New
Management Data Connectors New
Management Savings Plan New
Networking Application Gateways for Containers New
Security Azure Key Vault Managed HSM New
Security BitLocker Key New
Security Cloud NGFW New
Security Local Rulestack for Cloud NGFW New

Version 4.4 - 21/03/2023

Released 54 new or updated icons. This brings the total collection up to 1,108 icons! and still the most up to date repository I can find on the Net :D

Resolved an issue with SVG's being imported into Draw.IO. Prior to this release the images would import in with a 1x1px size. Turns out this is an issue with my PowerShell export process using Visio to re-export my stencils to new SVGs after resizing them. This method breaks the Width and Height values. This was fine for Office Applications, but Draw.IO needed these values to render the icons in the right sizing. Had to build a script to read the last 2 values of the ViewBox element and re-write the width and height values at the root of the SVG element after the export.

Category Icon Status
AI Virtual Appointments Builder New
Application API Management API Updated
Application API Management Authorisation New
Application API Management External Cache Updated
Application API Management Gateway New
Application API Management Location New
Application API Management Named Value Updated
Application API Management Policy Fragment New
Application API Management Power Platform Updated
Application API Management Product Updated
Application API Management Scale Out (auto-scale) New
Application API Management Schema New
Application App Service API New
Application Wordpress and MySQL Flexible server New
Compute AKS Cluster Configuration New
Compute AKS Configuration New
Compute AKS Deployment Center New
Compute AKS GitOps New
Compute AKS Hybrid Cluster New
Compute AKS Namespace New
Compute AKS Node Pool New
Compute AKS Open Service Mesh New
Compute AKS Service and Ingress New
Compute AKS Storage New
Compute AKS Workload New
Compute Container Registry Cache New
Compute Container Registry Connected Registry New
Compute Container Registry Encryption New
Compute Container Registry Networking New
Compute Container Registry Repository New
Compute Container Registry Retention New
Compute Container Registry Scope Map New
Compute Container Registry Task New
Compute Container Registry Token New
Compute Container Registry Webhook New
Compute HDInsight Cluster New
Deployment Azure Deployment Environment New
Deployment Dev Box New
Deployment Relic Service New
Identity Cross-tenant Synchronisation New
Identity Identity New
Management App Compliance Automation Tool for Microsoft 365 New
Management Data Collection Endpoint New
Management Database Watcher New
Management Microsoft Graph Data Connect New
Management SCOM Managed Instance New
Management System Integrity Monitoring New
Networking Communications Gateway Test Line New
Networking Network Security Perimeter New
Networking Network Verifier New
Networking NGINXaaS New
Networking SIM New
Storage Azure Managed Lustre New
Storage Qumulo Scalable File Service New
Storage Storage Mover New

Version 4.3 - 08/11/2022

Some minor tweaks with this release and new drawing tools. Expanding on my dark mode designs, I have included dark mode glow boxes that match the colour scheme of the glow lines. I also added connection points to all of the boxes.

One major update and this was a total PITA, was the removal of the invisible view box on the SVG icons. This caused some scaling issues when these icons were used in other products. Had to build a pretty funky script to scale the view box down to the the icon size but hours of processing later, these icons now scale perfectly with each other.

One major edition to this release is the new Microsoft 365 icon, really love this one. (Purview remains my favorite though)

Added the following new icons

Category Icon Status
Application App Configuration New
Application App Service Access Restriction New
Application App Service App Assigned Address New
Application Application Server Instance for SAP Solution New
Compute HPC Workbenche New
Compute Kubernetes Fleet Manager New
Compute Lab Account New
Compute Quantum Workspace New
Data Access Connector for Azure Databricks New
Data Elastic SAN New
Data Video Indexer New
Deployment Confluent Organization New
Identity Contact Profile New
Identity Verified ID New
Management Azure Monitor Workspace New
Management Managed Prometheus New
Networking Azure Orbital New
Networking Azure Virtual Hub New
Networking ExpressRoute Traffic Collector New
Networking Mesh VPN New
Networking Network Manager New
Office365 Microsoft 365 New
Office365 O365 - Word New
Security Global Rulestack New
Security Microsoft Defender EASM New

Version 4.2 - 06/07/2022

Renamed the following icons

Category Icon Category Icon
Compute WVD Host Pool Compute AVD Host Pool
Compute WVD RDP Property Compute AVD RDP Property
Compute WVD Task Compute AVD Task
Security Security Center Coverage Security Defender for Cloud Coverage
Security Security Center Security Defender for Cloud
Security Network Security Group Networking Network Security Group

Added the following icons

Category Icon Status
AI Applied AI Service New
AI Health Decision Support New
AI Virtual Visits Builder New
Application Container App Environment New
Application Event Grid Partner Configuration New
Application Event Grid Partner Destination New
Application Event Grid Partner Namespace New
Application Event Grid Partner Registration New
Application Event Grid System Topic Updated
Compute Fluid Relay Updated
Compute Lab Plan New
Compute Lab New
Compute Quantum Workspace New
Compute Virtual Instance for SAP New
Data Database Instance for SAP Solution New
Deployment Fidalgo New
Management Azure Arc SCVMM Management Server New
Management Azure Center for SAP New
Management Azure Managed Grafana New
Management Central Service Instance for SAP New
Management Dynatrace New
Management Logz Metrics Data Source New
Networking Custom IP Prefix New
Networking DNS Forwarding Ruleset New
Networking DNS Private Resolver New
Networking Email Communication Service New
Networking NGINX Deployment New
Networking Private link Service New

Version 4.1 - 21/03/2022

43 new icons with this update.

Category Icon Status
Application MedTech Service New
Application Open Supply Chain Platform New
Compute Azure VMware Solution Virtual Machine New
Compute Container New
Compute Virtual Machine Auto-Shutdown New
Compute Virtual Machine Change Tracking New
Compute Virtual Machine Configuration Management New
Compute Virtual Machine Continuous Delivery New
Compute Virtual Machine Redeploy New
Compute Virtual Machine Reservation New
Compute Virtual Machine Restart New
Compute Virtual Machine Run Command New
Compute Virtual Machine Serial Console New
Compute Virtual Machine Start New
Compute Virtual Machine Stop New
Compute Virtual Machine Updates New
Management Audit logs New
Management Azure Arc Azure Stack HCI New
Management Azure Arc Resource Bridge New
Management Azure Arc SQL Managed Instance New
Management Azure Arc SQL Server New
Management Azure Arc Virtual Machine New
Management Azure Arc VMware vCenter New
Management Azure Load Testing New
Management Cost exports New
Management Cost Management for AWS New
Management Logz metrics data source New
Management Policy Assignment New
Management Policy Compliance New
Management Policy Definition New
Management Policy Event New
Management Policy Exemption New
Management Policy Initiative New
Management Policy Remediation New
Management Reservation Auto Renew New
Networking Application Gateway Health Probe New
Networking Application Gateway Listener New
Networking Application Gateway SSL Setting New
Networking Load Balancer Backend Frontend IP Configuration New
Networking Load Balancer Backend Load Balancing Rule New
Networking Load Balancer Backend Outbound Rule New
Networking Load Balancer Health Probe New
Networking Mobile Networks New

Version 4.0 - 09/02/2022

Huge update, 210 new icons added to the collection. I have added a lot of per service configuration items to help with accurate designs using the particular service category stencils. This does mean a few double up icons when looking at the full stencil. Special thank you to @SvenAelterman for supplying several AKS icons.

Category Icon Status
AI Azure OpenAI New
AI Object Anchors Account New
Application API Management API New
Application API Management Backend New
Application API Management External Cache New
Application API Management Identity New
Application API Management Managed Identity New
Application API Management Named Value New
Application API Management OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect New
Application API Management Power Platform New
Application API Management Pricing Tier New
Application API Management Product New
Application API Playground New
Application App Gateway Backend Health New
Application App Gateway Backend Pool New
Application App Gateway Configuration New
Application App Gateway Frontend IP Configuration New
Application App Gateway HTTP Setting New
Application App Gateway Listener New
Application App Gateway Rule New
Application App Gateway WAF New
Application App Service Advanced Tools New
Application App Service Advisor New
Application App Service API Definition New
Application App Service API Management New
Application App Service Authentication New
Application App Service Backup New
Application App Service Clone App New
Application App Service Connector New
Application App Service Console New
Application App Service Custom Domain New
Application App Service Deployment Slot New
Application App Service Editor New
Application App Service Event New
Application App Service Export Template New
Application App Service Extension New
Application App Service Health check New
Application App Service Identity New
Application App Service Insights New
Application App Service Log Stream New
Application App Service Logs New
Application App Service Management New
Application App Service MySQL In App New
Application App Service Networking New
Application App Service Process Explorer New
Application App Service Quickstart New
Application App Service Quota New
Application App Service Reset Publish Profile New
Application App Service Scale Out New
Application App Service Scale up New
Application App Service Security New
Application App Service Start New
Application App Service Stop New
Application App Service WebJob New
Application Event Hub Event New
Application Event Hub Networking New
Application Event Hub Scale New
Application Event Hub Schema Registry New
Application Function App Advanced Tool New
Application Function App API Definition New
Application Function App API Management New
Application Function App Authentication New
Application Function App CORS New
Application Function App Deployment Slot New
Application Function App Extension New
Application Function App File New
Application Function App Function New
Application Function App Properties New
Application Function App Proxy New
Application Function App Scale out New
Application Function App Service Editor New
Compute Kubernetes Cluster Configuration New
Compute Kubernetes Configuration New
Compute Kubernetes Deployment Center New
Compute Kubernetes GitOps New
Compute Kubernetes Namespace New
Compute Kubernetes Networking New
Compute Kubernetes Node Pool New
Compute Kubernetes Policy New
Compute Kubernetes Service and Ingres New
Compute Kubernetes Storage New
Compute Kubernetes Workload New
Compute Virtual Machine SQL Assessment New
Compute Virtual Machine SQL Feature New
Compute Virtual Machine SQL High Availability New
Compute Virtual Machine SQL Patching New
Compute Virtual Network Gateway BGP Peer New
Data Apache Spark Configuration New
Data Apache Spark Package New
Data Apache Spark Pause Setting New
Data Apache Spark Pool New
Data Apache Spark Scale Setting New
Data Azure Cosmos DB Cognitive Search New
Data Azure Cosmos DB CORS New
Data Azure Cosmos DB Dedicated Gateway New
Data Azure Cosmos DB Document Explorer New
Data Azure Cosmos DB Feature New
Data Azure Cosmos DB Firewall and VNET New
Data Azure Cosmos DB Notification New
Data Azure Cosmos DB Query Explorer New
Data Azure Cosmos DB Replication New
Data Azure Cosmos DB Script Explorer New
Data Azure Cosmos DB Synapse Link New
Data Azure Synapse Analytics Dedicated SQL Pool New
Data Azure Synapse Analytics Pipeline New
Data Azure Synapse Analytics Serverless SQL Pool New
Data Azure Synapse Analytics Spark Pool New
Data Data Collection Data source New
Data Data collection Rule New
Data SQL Database Auditing New
Data SQL Database Automatic Tuning New
Data SQL Database Azure Data Studio New
Data SQL Database Connection String New
Data SQL Database Data Discovery & Classification New
Data SQL Database Dynamic Data Masking New
Data SQL Database Export New
Data SQL Database Ledger New
Data SQL Database Performance Overview New
Data SQL Database Performance Recommendation New
Data SQL Database Query Editor New
Data SQL Database Query Performance Insight New
Data SQL Database Restore New
Data SQL Database Sync New
Data SQL Database Transparent Data Encryption New
Data SQL Server Auditing New
Data SQL Server Automatic Tuning New
Data SQL Server Failover Group New
Data SQL Server Firewalls and VNET New
Data SQL Server Identity New
Data SQL Server Import Export New
Data SQL Server Recommendation New
IoT IoT Hub Built-in Endpoint New
IoT IoT Hub Certificate New
IoT IoT Hub Device New
IoT IoT Hub Event New
IoT IoT Hub File Upload New
IoT IoT Hub Message Routing New
IoT IoT Hub Query New
IoT IoT Hub Security Alert New
IoT IoT Hub Update New
IoT IoT Hub Workbook New
Management Automation Certificate New
Management Automation Change Tracking New
Management Automation Connection New
Management Automation Event Grid New
Management Automation Hybrid Worker Group New
Management Automation Identity New
Management Automation Job New
Management Automation Linked Workspace New
Management Automation Module New
Management Automation Python Package New
Management Automation Run as Account New
Management Automation Runbook New
Management Automation Schedule New
Management Automation Source Control New
Management Automation Start Stop VM New
Management Automation State Configuration (DSC) New
Management Automation Update Management New
Management Automation Variable New
Management Azure Automation Runbook Description New
Management Azure Automation Runbook Job New
Management Azure Automation Runbook Schedule New
Management Azure Automation Runbook Webhook New
Management Quota New
Management Recovery Services Policy New
Management Recovery Services Restore Point New
Management Restore Point Collection New
Networking CDN Compression New
Networking CDN Custom Domain New
Networking CDN Geo-Filtering New
Networking CDN Optimisation New
Networking CDN Origin New
Networking ExpressRoute Authorisation New
Networking ExpressRoute Health New
Networking ExpressRoute Peering New
Networking Load Balancer Backend pool New
Networking Load Balancer Frontend IP Configuration New
Networking Load Balancer Inbound NAT Rule New
Networking Network Interface Effective Route New
Networking Network Interface Effective Security Rule New
Networking Network Security Group Inbound Rule New
Networking Network Security Group Outbound Rule New
Security Azure Firewall IDPS New
Security Azure Firewall Secured Virtual Network New
Security Azure Firewall Threat Intelligence New
Security Azure Firewall TLS Inspection New
Security Azure Firewall Web Category New
Security Key Vault Access Policy New
Security Key Vault Certificate New
Security Key Vault Networking New
Security Web Application Firewall Custom Rule New
Security Web Application Firewall Managed Rule New
Security Web Application Firewall Policy Settings New
Storage Storage Account Blob inventory New
Storage Storage Account Browser New
Storage Storage Account Connectivity Check New
Storage Storage Account Data Migration New
Storage Storage Account Encryption New
Storage Storage Account File Share New
Storage Storage Account Lifecycle Management New
Storage Storage Account Networking New
Storage Storage Account Object Replication New
Storage Storage Account Queue New
Storage Storage Account Recovery New
Storage Storage Account Resource sharing (CORS) New
Storage Storage Account Shared Access Signature New
Storage Storage Account Table New
Storage Storage Account Upgrade New
Storage Storage Sync Network New
Storage Storage Sync Registered Server New

Version 3.9 - 08/11/2021

Updated the collection with the new services announced at Microsoft Ignite this month as below

Category Icon Status
AI Cognitive Services Language New
AI Machine Learning Studio Web Service (classic) Updated
AI Machine Learning Studio Web Service Plan (classic) Updated
AI Machine Learning Studio Workspace (classic) Updated
AI Machine Learning Updated
Application API Playground New
Application Chaos Experiment Target New
Application Chaos Experiment New
Application Chaos Studio New
Application CloudTest Account New
Application CloudTest Image New
Application Container App New
Application DICOM service New
Application FHIR Service New
Application Genomics Account Updated
Compute Azure Compute Gallery New
Compute Azure Edge Hardware Center New
Compute Capacity Reservation Group New
Compute VM Application Definition New
Compute VM Application Version New
Compute VM Image Definition New
Compute VM Image Version New
Data Time Series Insights Reference Data Set Updated
Data Video Analyzer for Media New
Deployment Azure DevOps Updated
Deployment Custom Template New
IoT IoT connector New
Management Azure Arc Private Link Scope New
Management Invoice New
Networking Network Function Manager – Device New
Networking Network Function Manager – Network Function New
Networking Network Function Manager – Vendor New
Networking Network Manager New
Security Confidential Ledger New

Version 3.8 - 09/10/2021

Updated double click behavior on each icon to open the text box editor as requested by @jikuja. Added new icons below.

Category Icon Status
AI Cognitive Services Communication Services New
Application Fluid Relay New
Compute Azure Edge Hardware Center New
Compute Capacity Reservation Group New
Compute Windows 365 New
Data Azure Integration Runtime New
Data Data Lake Storage Gen2 New
Data Integration Runtime New
Data Linked Integration Runtime New
Data Shared Integration Runtime New
Data Snowflake New
Data SSIS Integration Runtime New
Deployment 1ES New
Deployment 1ES CloudTest Account New
Deployment 1ES CloudTest Image New
Deployment 1ES Hosted Pool New
Deployment Bicep New
Deployment Custom Template New
Dynamics 365 Application Business Central New
Dynamics 365 Application Commerce New
Dynamics 365 Application Connected Store New
Dynamics 365 Application Core HR New
Dynamics 365 Application Customer Insights New
Dynamics 365 Application Customer Service New
Dynamics 365 Application Customer Service Insights New
Dynamics 365 Application Customer Voice New
Dynamics 365 Application Field Service New
Dynamics 365 Application Finance New
Dynamics 365 Application Finance and Operations New
Dynamics 365 Application Fraud Protection New
Dynamics 365 Application Intelligent Order Management New
Dynamics 365 Application Market Insights New
Dynamics 365 Application Marketing New
Dynamics 365 Application Product Insights New
Dynamics 365 Application Project Operations New
Dynamics 365 Application Project Service Automation New
Dynamics 365 Application Project Timesheet New
Dynamics 365 Application Return To School New
Dynamics 365 Application Return To Work New
Dynamics 365 Application Sales New
Dynamics 365 Application Sales Insights New
Dynamics 365 Application SCM Warehousing New
Dynamics 365 Application Supply Chain Management New
Dynamics 365 Application Sustainability Calculator New
Dynamics 365 Application Talent New
Dynamics 365 Application Talent Attract New
Dynamics 365 Application Talent Onboard New
Dynamics 365 Dynamics 365 New
Dynamics 365 Mixed Reality Guide New
Dynamics 365 Mixed Reality Import Tool New
Dynamics 365 Mixed Reality Layout New
Dynamics 365 Mixed Reality Portal New
Dynamics 365 Mixed Reality Product Visualise New
Dynamics 365 Mixed Reality Remote Assist New
Dynamics 365 Mixed Reality Voice Assistant New
Identity Azure AD B2B Updated
IoT IoT Connector New
Management Intelligent Recommendations Account New
Management Metrics Advisor New
Management Resource Management Private Link New
Management Update Management Center New
Networking Service Endpoint Updated
Office365 O365 - Dataverse New
Office365 O365 - Power App Virtual Agent New

Version 3.7 - 23/07/2021

Exciting update with this release. For a while I have been building my own set of Icons to represent workload services for infrastructure hosted anywhere. While not technically Azure specific I have utilised the same colouring and styling as per the Azure Icons to maintain consistency with designs especially with Hybrid hosting models.

I started by using previous generation per workload Visio stencils and using those as a design guide I built new icons in the Azure style. To maintain consistency I built a style guide as below so that the primary and secondary icon elements are always aligned, spaced and sized the same. This will be a huge ongoing addition to the icon family and to start off I included PKI, Exchange and a few other common services that would be depicted in a per-workload style design. These are located under the Workload category and I also included the sub component of the services to use for other icons too under the Workload-Services category. Reach out if you would like to see more of these icons. All designed in Visio of course :D

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So if that was not enough for a release I also included a total of 100 new Icons as well as fixing the title of the Drawing resources stencil.

Category Icon Status
AI Cognitive Services Bot Web App New
AI Cognitive Services Bot Profile New
AI Cognitive Services Bot Test in Web Chat New
AI Cognitive Services Bot Channel New
Application Application Service Authentication New
Application Application Service Networking New
Application Application Service Quota New
Application Application Service Clone App New
Application Application Service Health check New
Application Application Service Advisor New
Application Application Service Console New
Application Application Service Deployment Slot New
Application Application Service MySQL In App New
Application Application Service Editor New
Application Application Service API definition New
Application Application Service log New
Application Application Service Event New
Application Application Service WebJob New
Application Application Service Log stream New
Application Application Service Process Explorer New
Deployment Export Template New
Management Application Insights Work Item New
Management Application Insights Application Map New
Management Application Insights Live Metrics New
Management Application Insights Failure New
Management Application Insights Performance New
Management Application Insights User New
Management Application Insights Session New
Management Application Insights Event New
Management Application Insights Funnel New
Management Application Insights User Flow New
Management Application Insights Retention New
Management Application Insights Cohort New
Management Application Insights Transaction Search New
Management Application Insights Continuous Export New
Management Certificate Configuration New
Management Certificate Auto Renew Setting New
Management Certificate Timeline New
Networking Application Gateway WAF Policy Setting New
Networking Application Gateway WAF Managed Rule New
Networking Application Gateway WAF Custom Rule New
Networking Application Gateway Rule New
Networking Application Gateway Configuration New
Networking Application Gateway Backend Pool New
Networking Application Gateway HTTP Setting New
Networking Application Gateway Listener New
Workload Email Server New
Workload Azure Active Directory Sync Primary New
Workload Exchange Edge Transport Server New
Workload Certification Authority Online Responder New
Workload Active Directory Federation Proxy New
Workload Azure File Sync Server New
Workload File Server New
Workload Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services New
Workload Active Directory Rights Management Server New
Workload Server Cluster New
Workload Database Server Generic New
Workload Database Server SQL New
Workload Web Server New
Workload Azure Active Directory Sync Standby New
Workload Proxy Server New
Workload Exchange Mailbox Server New
Workload Exchange Client Access Server New
Workload Exchange Hub Transport Server New
Workload Generic Email Server New
Workload FTP Server New
Workload Application Server New
Workload Active Directory Federation Services New
Workload Active Directory Domain Services New
Workload Enterprise Certification Authority Offline Root New
Workload Network Device Enrollment Service New
Workload Enterprise Certification Authority Subordinate New
Workload Enterprise Certification Authority Root New
Workload Certification Authority Standalone New
Workload Certificatation Authority Enrollment Web Service New
Workload Certification Authority Web Enrollment New
Workload Certification Authority Policy Web Service New
Workload Certification Authority New
Workload-Service Database Server SQL New
Workload-Service Application Server New
Workload-Service Database Server Generic New
Workload-Service Active Directory Rights Management Server New
Workload-Service Active Directory Federation Services New
Workload-Service File Server New
Workload-Service FTP Server New
Workload-Service Azure File Sync New
Workload-Service Exchange Mailbox Server New
Workload-Service Devices New
Workload-Service Proxy Server New
Workload-Service Active Directory Domain Services New
Workload-Service Certification Authority Subordinate New
Workload-Service Certification Authority Standalone New
Workload-Service Web Service New
Workload-Service Certification Authority Policy Web Service New
Workload-Service Certification Authority New
Workload-Service Azure Active Directory Sync Secondary New
Workload-Service Azure Active Directory Sync Primary New
Workload-Service Exchange Edge Transport Server New
Workload-Service Certification Authority Online Responder New
Workload-Service Active Directory Federation Proxy New

Version 3.6 - 28/05/2021

Large update with this release. 56 new or refreshed icons added bringing the collection up to 613 items (Minus drawing tools) I have also completely re-worked the Drawing tools. I Scripted a full extract of the Hex colour values for all icons and sorted them by occurrence, after that I designed a new colour pallet using the top 30 colours that are used across the board. This helps to keep visual consistency with colouring, As well as the colour pallet I did the same for gradients so there are now two pallets to chose from. I also took the most common colours and redrew the connection objects providing a line, arc, glow line, path based and angled connection objects in each colour as well as dashed line boxes as containers.

Fixes

The Azure Icon, so I could not source an SVG of the new Azure Icon so I drew it from scratch but it was not perfect and I found an alignment issue with the bottom two horizontal lines that I corrected. I have since found other “SVG” sources of the Azure Icon but these are not vector images and I refuse to use bitmaps in my stencil.

Text Box positioning, a few updates ago I changed the Y positioning of the Text box to be 14mm below the center of the icon, this lined up the text box nicely with icons of a differing height. Unfortunately this change to position breaks the text box if you resize the icon so I reverted to a calculation based on the height of the icon.

Significant new Icons

Visual Studio and VS Code now have the new Fluent styling, as per the Azure Icon I had to draw these from scratch.

Azure Active Directory Sync hosts, these are based on an upcoming per workload stencil that I am working on that uses the same styling as Azure.

Full list of icon changes below:-

Category Icon Status
AI Cognitive Services Content Moderator Refreshed
AI Cognitive Services Data Collection Rule Refreshed
AI Cognitive Services Face Detection Refreshed
AI Cognitive Services Health Bot Refreshed
AI Cognitive Services QnA Maker Refreshed
AI Cognitive Services Speech Refreshed
Identity AADConnect Staged Rollout New
Identity Active Directory Domain Services Refreshed
Identity Active Directory Federation Proxy Refreshed
Identity Active Directory Federation Services Refreshed
Identity Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services New
Identity Authentication Context New
Identity Azure Active Directory Sync Primary New
Identity Azure Active Directory Sync Standby New
Identity Continuous Access Evaluation New
Identity Custom Control New
Identity Identity Governance New
Identity Terms of use New
Identity User Setting New
Identity VPN Connectivity Refreshed
IoT Built-in Endpoint New
IoT Certificate New
IoT Device New
IoT File Upload New
IoT Identity New
IoT Message Routing New
IoT Query Explorer New
Management Azure Monitor AKS Health New
Management Azure Monitor Azure Stack Health New
Management Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules New
Management Azure Monitor Data sources New
Management Azure Monitor Log Analytics Health New
Management Azure Monitor Service Bus Health New

Version 3.5 - 11/05/2021

Azure received an Icon rebranding! The new icon for Azure is here and until the community starts to use it in design and documentation I have included the old one and new one labelled Azure V1 and Azure V2. I also corrected a background issue with the PNG versions. Visio does not allow you to export a PNG file with no background so I had to get a little creative. This would not have been an issue for white background diagrams but in dark mode you would have had a white background box around the icon.

Version 3.4 - 27/04/2021

Icon refresh and new additions

Application - Static Web Folder, FTP, Event Grid Partner Topic and Event Grid Input Output

Compute - Server Farm

Deployment - Commit, Repository, Backlog and Confluent Organization

Generic - Warning

Identity - Azure Token, Azure Active Directory Verifiable Credential, Azure Active Directory Verifiable Credentials, Admin Consent, Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management and Collection

Iot - Custom Location

Management - Azure LightHouse Multi Tenancy, Datadog, Diagnostics

Storage - Data Box Gateway

Version 3.3 - 04/03/2021

It is that time of year again. Yes Microsoft Ignite just happened and as always new services were announced. The 2 major new items announced were "Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra" and the new Augmented Reality service "Azure Percept" as well as these 2 I updated or added 28 new icons. I also added 2 new containers to the drawing tools that I use for full architecture diagrams. I am looking into adding smart containers for core features such as Subscription, Resource Group and Virtual Network for the next release.

Version 3.2 - 13/02/2021

The first update for the year. Several new and refreshed icons and a new naming convention for the stencils. 10 days ago I reached 25,000 downloads and I thank everyone for supporting my project.

Version 3.1 - 05/12/2020

Likely to be the last version release for this very interesting year of 2020.

Search Fixes (See above) and added 5 new service icons (The icon for Azure Purview is my new favorite!)

Over the past year I have seen incremental changes to certain icons but not others. The team is doing an amazing job at converting to super modern gradiant shaded versions which look stunning. But some icons have not received a modern revamp.

This was a good opportunity to work through the set and start applying the same style and theme to some of the icons to make them consistent. Here is one example where I have taken the image on the right (User License Allocation) and updated it to match the modern style of other user type icons. This update has 23 new or refreshed icons bringing the total count up to 506 (Excluding drawing tools)

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A few more examples (left original, right modern)

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Version 3.0 - 14/10/2020

Major update with this release so we are now on version 3! I have added placeholder shape data in preparation for an Azure documentor script that I am working on, essentially this will open up the capability of enumerating resources in Azure and then drawing those resources in Visio and populating each shape with the relevant meta data for the resource. I have included basic fields at this stage that can be retrieved using get-azresource and then added to the shape via PowerShell

Fields included: -

  • ResourceID
  • Location
  • ResourceName
  • ResourceGroupName
  • ResourceType
  • Tags
  • SubscriptionID

Based on community feedback from a series of Twitter polls I posted a few months ago I have changed the default text format from dark blue to black

Also based on feedback you now have the option to use a single large stencil containing all 496 icons or you can use the category stencils for just networking, compute etc. I have placed all of the current versions at the root of the repo including categorized structured PNG and SVG versions

Added or refreshed 66 icons

Version 2.8 - 15/07/2020

Refreshed 19 icons and added new ones, welcome Office 365 to the collection. O365 services have been requested a few times so I am starting to add them into the Stencil. These icons are more difficult to convert as sourcing SVG versions is challenging so I have had to trace some bitmap versions by hand in my SVG editor.

Version 2.6 - 21/04/2020

I noticed that the Cosmos DB Icon had broken from a previous update and while fixing that I ended up reviewing and updating 96 icons! – I extended my icon collection passed the Azure Portal as even some of those icons are out of date.

Version 2.5 - 20/04/2020

New Icons and several icon refreshers, fixed the drawing boxes that were fixed to square shapes and not adjustable. Added a new Line drawing tool with a nice glow “A_GlowLine-1” – I am toying with Dark mode designs and this new line format really makes a design jump off the page in my opinion. Below are 2 examples of the same reference architecture

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Version 2.4 - 21/02/2020

Added new drawing resources for number labels/boxes/lines and arrows. I have also included SVG and PNG versions of the icons after multiple requests, this was a challenge due to scaling but my script now builds the stencil, SVG and PNG versions of the icons.

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Version 2.3 - 22/01/2020

Added new icons for Synapse and others, refreshed 19 updated icons. Big announcement here:-

SEARCH - I finally figured out how to add search metadata to each icon via PowerShell, for best results ensure that Visio search is set to OR keyword matching (Visio Options\Advanced\Show Shape Search Pane\Search for Any of the Words)

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Version 2.2 - 05/11/2019

Welcome to the Icon family Azure Arc and Spring Cloud

Version 2.1 - 04/11/2019

This weekend I found another major icon update. 209 icons to be precise! - I have restructured the Repo as well, created a folder structure for archived versions as I felt the landing page was getting a bit cluttered. The latest version will always be at the root of the Repo with previous versions moving into the Archive folder

Version 2.0 - 22/10/2019

Over the past week I have noticed significant updates to key Azure Service Icons and in preparation for an expected announcement at Ignite this year I have re-designed my entire conversion process, previously I had to manually work on each icon to set the initial placement of the connection points and name them for scripted modification. I finally managed to figure out the PS syntax that the Visio COM.Application is expecting for inserting new connection point rows. My process is now automated taking SVG's from a directory and inserting them into my Master Stencil for processing. Recorded a quick video showing the automation into Visio

https://github.com/David-Summers/Azure-Design/blob/master/Assets/VIDEO_Icon-Builder.mp4

Now that I have a new automated process to build the stencil I re-worked every single icon and incorporated over 60 new icon styles that have been updated in the past week. Since this is a major change, I upped the version to 2.0

One key change here is that I renamed the connection points to North, East, West, South and SouthOfText as per the example below

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I use this stencil for a suite of Azure Documentor scripts and using named connection points allows you to specify direction for connections easier

Version 1.6 - 8/10/2019

Corrected mis-coloured icons, thanks to Cédric De Loor for pointing that out

Added new icons

  1. Maintenance Configuration
  2. Azure Blockchain Service
  3. Azure Active Directory Identity Secure Score
  4. Cloud Simple Service
  5. Cloud Simple Node
  6. Cloud Simple Virtual Machine
  7. Azure Lighthouse Service Provider
  8. Peering
  9. Role
  10. Virtual Cluster
  11. Azure Active Directory Risk Detection
  12. Azure Active Directory Risky User
  13. Azure Active Directory Identity Protection
  14. Private Link
#### **Version 1.5 - 26/08/2019**

Major change with this release, initially I hand placed the four connection points for each icon and that was not perfect placement. I thought it would be easy to script modify the connection point position (like I did with the Text field in V-1.1) but it turns out that Visio does not name a connection point when you add it so I could not modify it through PowerShell. I added a new script process that allowed me to hand place the connection points and then name them 1-5 (I added a new connection point under the text field for easier south connections when there is data in the text field). Now that they are named, I can modify them when I build my stencil using my gold master. Example below: -

"$shape.CellsU("Connections.1.X").Formula = "Width*0.5"" "$shape.CellsU("Connections.1.Y").Formula = "Height*1.1"" "$shape.CellsU("Connections.2.X").Formula = "Width*-0.1"" "$shape.CellsU("Connections.2.Y").Formula = "Height*0.5"" "$shape.CellsU("Connections.3.X").Formula = "Width*1.1"" "$shape.CellsU("Connections.3.Y").Formula = "Height*0.5"" "$shape.CellsU("Connections.4.X").Formula = "Width*0.5"" "$shape.CellsU("Connections.4.Y").Formula = "Height*-0.05"" "$shape.CellsU("Connections.5.X").Formula = "Width*0.5"" "$shape.CellsU("Connections.5.Y").Formula = "Height*-0.6""

Added new icons

  • Dedicated Host
  • Dedicated Host Group
  • Azure Artifact
  • Azure Board
#### **Version 1.4 - 16/08/2019**

Started on the drawing resources, added a colour pallet for what I believe are the best mainly used colours in the stencil range. For fun I scripted an export of every Hex colour value that is being used and there are 88 total colours. Some are extremely close to each other so I selected the most common used colours and included them in the pallet. Added 3 connector styles and deciding on the remaining set. Ideas welcome! and lastly, re-worked the colour scheme on the Azure lighthouse icons.

Added new icons

  • SAP Hana
  • Virtual Machine Image Classic
  • Virtual Machine Image Version
  • Virtual Machine Image Definition
  • Virtual Machine Classic
  • Quickstart Center
  • Free Services
  • Help and Support
  • Recent
#### **Version 1.3 - 14/08/2019**

Added new Icons for storage account sub services, had to hand draw these as they did not appear to exist. Renamed Data brick to the correct name Databricks.

  • Azure Storage Blob
  • Azure Storage Queue
  • Azure Storage Table
#### **Version 1.2 - 03/08/2019**

Removed "Azure" prefix for some incorrectly named icons. Added new Icons

  • Azure LightHouse Projection
  • Azure LightHouse Management
  • Azure LightHouse Protection
  • Azure LightHouse RBAC
  • Azure Batch
  • Azure Batch Accounts
#### **Version 1.1 - 27/07/2019**

First major change, I realized that some of the text fields were not perfectly aligned so I rebuilt my PowerShell process to use dynamic values for the text field. Since the shapes differ in Height\Width my initial placement was slightly off due to distance from center. This placement is now relative to the bottom edge of the icon. I also inserted the name of the icon into the Text field for page drop as well and reformatted the text to a dark Blue. Final change was to add a subtle drop shadow to each icon as I feel they jump off the page with a small amount of depth.

Version 1.0 - 25/07/2019

Initial release of the stencil and bonus SVG and PNG versions. I built a conversion process that can re-colour each icon and these initial versions were made with a Blue and Grey scale pallet.