Migrating SharePoint Taxonomy Term Stores from one environment to another – on-premise or online
When we migrate SharePoint lists and libraries from one environment to another and if the list uses managed metadata columns from global or site collection term store, they tend to lose the tagging information if the term stores are not migrated alongside or created manually. The goal of this implementation is to retain the global and local term tagging information after the migration.
To achieve that, conceptually, we should be creating the term stores and their child objects and properties maintaining the same GUIDs of individual objects. This implementation automates the migration of SharePoint term store objects – groups, term sets, terms etc. to another SharePoint environment – on-premise or online.