How to manage documents that require regular employee acceptance with DocRead

How to manage documents that require regular employee acceptance with DocReadDocRead is an excellent tool for distributing important company documents that are already stored in SharePoint document libraries to employees and monitoring whether they have read them or not. Reading receipts are stored in a secure database so can be used at a later stage for compliance […]

DocRead and the SharePoint User Profile Service explained

DocRead and the SharePoint User Profile Service explainedA question just came in from one of our customers and it’s not the first time, so thought I would share my edited response. The question went a bit like this : “Do I need to have the SharePoint User Profile Service running to use DocRead?” When DocRead […]

Debbie Irelands Top 10 tips for being more productive with SharePoint

Debbie Irelands Top 10 tips for being more productive with SharePointDebbie Ireland carried out an awesome session yesterday, her tips are as follows : Encourage Collaboration – Use SharePoint for wikis and discussions. Organise you data – External Lists, Metadata, Views. Display Key Information – Web Parts – use external web parts (for things like FB, […]

New policies and procedures group created in LinkedIn

New policies and procedures group created in LinkedInManaging the full life-cycle of a policy or procedure in SharePoint requires you to use many of it’s features and can be quite a daunting task if SharePoint isn’t your day job. To help share best practice and encourage sharing of ideas we have created a closed LinkedIn […]

Cannot add specified assembly to the global assembly cache during upgrade

Cannot add specified assembly to the global assembly cache during upgradeDuring an upgrade of DocRead it is possible you will receive this error : “Cannot add specified assembly to the global assembly cache“. This error occurs because one or more of the DocRead assemblies are in being used. This will either be because a timer […]

How to Distribute a Training Video with DocRead for SharePoint

How to Distribute a Training Video with DocRead for SharePointOK, so here’s the thing – you’ve created a fabulous training video informing staff how to avoid injuring themselves when lifting heavy objects and you now need to ensure that all relevant staff watch it and follow your guidance. Before proceeding, please read ‘How to add […]

How to sync the AD Line Manager to DocRead using Powershell

How to sync the AD Line Manager to DocRead using PowershellIn DocRead 2.1 (available mid-September) we introduced some new Powershell Cmdlets to help SharePoint Administrators synchronize the ‘Manager’ property from Active Directory to the DocRead database. Please note, if you are not using SharePoint Foundation, you can ignore this as it’s very likely that the […]

How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013

How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013If you are considering migrating your SharePoint Farm to SharePoint 2013 (from SharePoint 2010) then please read through this article for steps on how to achieve this. Before proceeding, it’s important that you read ‘migrating between editions‘ to understand how this effects your licensing. Preparing your SharePoint 2013 […]

Security Management in SharePoint Groups, Permissions and Users

Security Management in SharePoint Groups, Permissions and UsersSharePoint GroupsSharePoint 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 / List ItemLibrarySiteSite CollectionPermissionsTo […]

Code Sample : How to associate a SharePoint Workflow to a list programmatically

Code Sample : How to associate a SharePoint Workflow to a list programmaticallyThe following code sample illustrates how to associate a workflow to a list based on the workflow name.