All Posts by Mark Jones

How to improve your SOP training using SharePoint

How to improve your SOP training using SharePointA huge problem in business is whether we can be really sure that training on company Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) has genuinely been read, understood and ultimately can be adhered to by staff members.Should we rely on meetings and phone calls?One answer would be to make sure that you interview your […]

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How to delete a Survey

How to delete a SurveyTo delete a survey you first need ensure that it is not attached to any document or else the users will receive an error if they try to complete it via the document (i.e. when they select “Complete Survey” on the document library Ribbon or when they try to complete a […]

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Why can’t the “Domain Users” AD group be used in a DocRead audience

Why can’t the “Domain Users” AD group be used in a DocRead audienceDocRead uses the SharePoint API to identify the members of SharePoint and Active Directory (AD) groups (more specifically we use the SPUtility.GetPrincipalsInGroup method), unfortunately this API does not seem to support the “Domain Users” AD group (there are several people reporting this problem: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/594b8f59-526e-4624-97b7-6dd5acaa98e4/getting-users-from-ad-group?forum=sharepointdevelopment). Because of this the […]

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Permission levels required to create a Survey in SharePoint

Permission levels required to create a Survey in SharePointThe permissions to create Surveys are controlled by SharePoint itself. By default SharePoint allows users with the “Contributor” right to create Surveys in a site (so any member of the SharePoint Site Members group will get this permission by default). Using enhanced quiz / survey features in SharePoint using […]

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Collab365 Conference – Everything you need to know!

Collab365 Conference – Everything you need to know!We are delighted to announce that on October 8th 2015 we will be running a 24-hour online, free conference along similar lines as SP24. Our conference this year will be an event driven by the community for the community. This time our focus will be Office 365 (including SharePoint, Exchange, Azure, Office Apps […]

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