Visio Stencil for SharePoint Designs

When creating site and application designs for SharePoint, I have frequently wanted to illustrate the elements that comprise the solution's architecture. Diagrams at this level are very valuable for explaining the proposed design to a client, and also for summarising the elements involved ("a picture is worth....").

So I have created a few shapes for use in Visio diagrams, and have grouped these into a stencil that can be downloaded below. The shapes have been inspired by various system diagrams I have seen on the web. Here's an example of their usage:

Example application design diagram using the visio shapes

Hope you find them useful!

Visio Stencil of SharePoint Shapes (Visio 2007)