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title: # ARTICLE TITLE in 55 chars or less, most important for SEO. Best to match H1 and TOC, but doesn't have to.
description: # A summary of the content. 75-300 characters. Used in site search. Sometimes used on a search engine results page for improved SEO. Always end with period.
ms.date: mm/dd/yyyy
ms.prod: windows
ms.technology: windows #more to come...
ms.prod: windows-client
ms.technology: itpro-fundamentals # itpro-deploy itpro-updates itpro-apps itpro-manage itpro-configure itpro-security itpro-privacy itpro-edu
ms.topic: conceptual #reference troubleshooting how-to end-user-help overview (more in contrib guide)
ms.localizationpriority: medium #high null
author: # GitHub username (aczechowski)
ms.author: # MS alias (aaroncz)
ms.reviewer: # MS alias of feature PM, optional
manager: # MS alias of manager (dougeby)
ms.reviewer: # MS alias of feature PM, optional. comma-separated multivalue
manager: # MS alias of manager (dougeby/aaroncz)
ms.collection: # optional
- # highpri - high priority, strategic, important, current, etc. articles
- # openauth - the article is owned by PM or community for open authoring
- # highpri - high priority, strategic, important, current, etc. articles (confirm with manager prior to use)
- # education - part of M365 for Education vertical
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# Metadata and Markdown Template
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## Metadata
The full metadata block is above the markdown between the `---` lines. For more information, see [Metadata attributes](https://review.learn.microsoft.com/help/contribute/metadata-attributes?branch=main) in the contributor guide. Some key notes:
The full metadata block is above the markdown between the `---` lines. For more information, see [Metadata for Magic content](https://review.learn.microsoft.com/office-authoring-guide/metadata-for-content-on-docs?branch=main) and [Metadata attributes](https://review.learn.microsoft.com/help/platform/metadata-all-attributes?branch=main) in the contributor guide. Some key notes:
- You _must_ have a space between the colon (`:`) and the value for a metadata element.
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- Don't end with a period.
- Use Microsoft style _sentence case_.
- The title can match the H1 heading (`#`) and the name in the toc.yml, but doesn't have to.
- It should be roughly 55 characters or less for best search engine optimization (SEO).
- It should be roughly 60-65 characters or less for best search engine optimization (SEO). NOTE that the length also includes any titleSuffix value, which is configured for every docset in docfx.json.
- `description`: Summarize the content, shows in search engine results. 75-300 characters. Always end with a period.
- `ms.date`: After you Save As this template to the target file, with the Docs Authoring Pack extension installed, right-click anywhere in the .md file to **Update `ms.date` metadata value** and save the file.
- `ms.date`: After you Save As this template to the target file, with the Docs Authoring Pack extension installed, right-click anywhere in the .md file to **Update `ms.date` metadata value** and save the file. This value is useful for when someone last reviewed the article (not just made any edit/commit).
- `author`: The author field contains the **Github username** of the author.
- `author`: The author field contains the **Github username** of the author (single-value).
- This value is used in GitHub notifications, assignments, and other build automation in both the private and public repositories.
- It's also used to display the first (left-most) contributor in the published article.
- `ms.author` & `manager`: Microsoft aliases. ms.author and author are typically the same.
- `ms.reviewer`: Optionally can specify the name of the PM associated with the article. Just for reference, not currently used by any automation.
- `ms.author` & `manager`: Microsoft aliases (single-value). ms.author and author are typically the same.
- `ms.prod`: Should always be `windows` for Windows content. (Some older articles still use `w10` and `w11`.)
- `ms.reviewer`: Optionally can specify the name of the PM associated with the article. Just for reference, not currently used by any automation. Single or multi-value.
- `ms.technology`: Select one of the options based on the feature area. Currently the only option is `windows`.
- `ms.prod`: Should always be `windows-client` for Windows content.
- `ms.technology`: Select one of the options based on the feature area. (single-value)
- `ms.topic`: Select one of the options based on the content type. This attribute is used in calculating content health (different content types are used differently by customers, so have different metrics).