SharePoint Account Permissions and Security SettingsIf you ever need to understand what the WSS_WPG or WSS_ADMIN_WPG groups can and can’t do in SharePoint – look no further! The articles linked below outline their rights in great detail. It not only details what groups the various service accounts in SharePoint belong to, but also what permissions those […]
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Using DocRead in a hybrid scenario DocRead needs to be installed into an on-premises version of SharePoint. It is possible for the same SharePoint Farm to have other sites running in SharePoint Online, but the site where DocRead is installed needs to be fully running on-premises. It is possible to create a “link” to a […]
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Why Policy Management Software in SharePoint? As part of an ongoing series of posts illustrating how SharePoint can help manage the life-cycle of a policy, this post introduces at a high-level the features SharePoint has on offer. To view a list of the required features for a policy management system, please have a look at […]
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How to Set Up and Refine Templates in DocRead Note: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. In DocRead version 3.0 one of the new features is the ability to assign tasks to users with different messages that you can create and specify e.g. “please read this document”, “please watch this […]
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Private: What are your favourite SharePoint 2013 Features? SharePoint 2013 has shipped and it’s now main stream. We’d love to hear what your favourite 2013 features are, so please add them! Also vote up the killer ones and why not embed the list to see if we can make it one awesome resource! Favourite […]
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Security Management in SharePoint Groups, Permissions and Users SharePoint Groups SharePoint Groups are used to group SharePoint users together to make the administration and maintenance of security in SharePoint easier. By security we are specifically referring to the types of things a user needs can do on ‘things’ in SharePoint, such as : Document / […]
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New Survey Request Feature in DocRead v3.0 Note: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. Version 3.0 of DocRead introduces a new feature which, when combined with DocSurvey allows you to request that groups of users complete a survey / quiz or questionnaire without an associated document. In earlier versions of […]
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Why don’t I receive emails? All emails sent out by DocRead are sent using a separate application called the Collaboris Notification Scheduler. If you aren’t receiving emails it’s highly likely to be one of the following reasons : The Collaboris Notification Service isn’t installed and / or configured. Please read this the section on the […]
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Join over 4300 SharePoint professionals at the free Collab365 Summit! Over 4,300 people have now registered for what promises to be 3 amazing action packed days at the Collab365 Summit starting tomorrow, 10th May 2016 at 8am PDT (11am EDT / 3pm CST / 4pm GMT). The free, online conference takes place over 3 consecutive […]
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Microsoft HQ – here we come! The Collab365 Summit (10-12th May 2016) promises to be one of my most exciting ventures so far. I’m finally going to tick off an item on my ‘bucket list’ that I was beginning to think I would never achieve – a trip to Microsoft Campus in Redmond! I’ve worked […]
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