Why is DocRead different from competing software?We are very often asked how DocRead differs from its competitors. Here’s a recent response we gave (slightly tweaked to protect the identity of the requestor!): Great question! Although we have a few competitors in the same area of ‘compliance’ – as far as we know – we don’t have […]
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RN01: DocRead for SharePoint V1.0 (build 11025.2)Please note: This is a historic release note and does not relate to the most recent version of the software available. Please visit our release note archive here to view a complete list of published release notes.25th October 2011 A new version of DocRead was launched today to fix […]
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SharePoint Governance “Switches” by ScopeWas in a great SharePoint Governance Session by Dan Holme at the SharePoint conference last week. Off the back of his session I thought it would be a great idea to show all of the switches that can be set by scope all in one big A3 diagram. Hence, feel free […]
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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, […]
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Planning for the Lifecycle of Your SharePoint 2010 Website – in 2 minutesHad the pleasure of attending this Level 200 session at the SharePoint Conference yesterday and here’s the take home points : How to measure success when implementing a SharePoint Site : conversion rates page views per second number of visitors total time on the […]
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Upgrading SharePoint Content TypesIntroduction Well it’s now Saturday afternoon and the family have been out shopping all day, so I have taken the opportunity to conduct some tests that I had been meaning to do for a long time now (geek I hear you say). I wanted to find specifically what happens if you want […]
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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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What exactly is SAF and why would I need it ? (FAQ) ?For those out there that are a little curious as to whether SAF is any use to your organisation, please read this FAQ. What is SAF ? SAF is free to use. SAF is the “SharePoint Action Framework”, it was built by myself […]
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Content Migration using SAFSAF contains 6 ready-to-use Actions that allow the Exporting and Importing of : – List Items – Lists – Webs The 3 pairs of Actions that allow you to do this, are namely : – ExportListItem & ImportListItem – ExportList & ImportList – ExportWeb & ImportWeb The actions are listed as pairs […]
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SAF v2 is releasedSAF v2 is now freely available to download from CodePlex @ http://saf.codeplex.com Major points worth noting in this release : – Many more Actions to help you automatically configure SharePoint. – Downloadable examples and documentation explaining how to run every Action. – Run Actions from an MSBuild project and pass properties. – […]
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