Are you and your staff GDPR Compliant?When the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) was introduced in May 2018, it represented a big step in the data privacy protection legislation in the UK. For thousands of businesses GDPR highlights a very daunting compliance challenge around how they handle and report on data. Organisations that fail to […]
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How to send an email when a SharePoint site or web is deletedFor various governance reasons you may want to email the site owner when a SharePoint site is deleted. A list of the possible reasons could be : The site was deleted in error and the earlier you notify the owners – the better. […]
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SharePoint Lessons Learned – Clearly Define a Deployment Baseline (Part 2)In part 1 of this post I talked about the principles behind the creation of a Deployment Baseline during the development of SharePoint based applications. In this post I’m going to talk about how we, at Collaboris. normally group and categorise the different artefacts to […]
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Troubleshooting Reading Tasks in DocReadNote: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. If you are wondering why you have no ‘Reading Tasks’ when you have assigned a ‘Required’ or ‘Recommended’ document to a group or audience of users this post will help you resolve and troubleshoot the most common reasons.Reading Tasks […]
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Building an MSI in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010Here’s my rig: I am running a Windows 2008 Enterprise Server with SharePoint 2007 64 bit and Visual Studio 2008. I have been trying to create an MSI (using VS), that installs Action Server on a SharePoint 64 bit platform. My main problem arrives when the installer attempts to […]
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Avoid the SOP Management MistakesOf course, in any work environment, when creating and updating Standard Operating Procedures, there are numerous considerations; many ways to get it right and many ways to get it wrong. This blog is to highlight some of the most common areas people and teams fail in their SOP management.Not Using The Full […]
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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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How to find out who has completed a SharePoint Survey If you would like to find out who has completed a survey you created with either SharePoint Survey or by using DocSurvey for SharePoint, then hopefully the instructions below will help you: Firstly, ensure you check the box as shown below when you create the survey. […]
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Distributing and tracking your policies and procedures with DocRead and SharePointAfter your policy has been created, reviewed and approved. It should be moved to a policies and procedures site within your main SharePoint Intranet and targeted to the relevant users with DocRead. Target the policy to the relevant usersTo target your policy to the relevant […]
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How to utilise audience targeting in SharePointThis article will explain how to setup and configure audience targeting in SharePoint 2010. Before I get started with the guide, I’d like to mention that an Audience is a part of the User Profile Service Application. To manage a SharePoint Audience you will need to open Central Administration website Application Management—–> Manage […]
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