How to free up DocRead user licenses in DocRead version 3

How to free up DocRead user licenses in DocReadNote: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. If you need to free up some DocRead licences, because you have users that no longer work in your organization, then follow the steps outlined here. Before we explain how to free up licenses, it’s important to […]

An SP24 Adventure – The idea

An SP24 Adventure – The idea This post is part of a series of posts about the SP24 Virtual SharePoint Conference. Wow! What an experience – SP24 and SP24 Rewound are now over, and on reflection, it’s certainly been one of the most challenging projects I have ever undertaken. What started out as a very […]

Regulatory Compliance – Information Management Policies

Regulatory Compliance – Information Management Policies Information Management Policies in SharePoint in my experience, are not used that heavily, but are an extremely easy way to apply policies to your documents. They are accessible from ‘Library Settings’ and are configurable per content type. For example, this means that all ‘documents’ in the library will have the policy applied. […]

An SP24 Adventure – The Thank you’s

An SP24 Adventure – The Thank you’s This post is part of a series of posts about the SP24 Virtual SharePoint Conference There are so many people that made SP24 possible, probably way too many to mention here, but I would like to highlight a few heroes!  These are by no means in any particular […]

3rd Party apps and services that we used to build SP24 on SharePoint

3rd Party apps and services that we used to build SP24 on SharePoint This post is part of a series of posts about the SP24 Virtual SharePoint Conference SP24 was a free, virtual, SharePoint Conference that took place on April 14th and was then replayed on May 16th. It lasted for 24 hours and featured […]

How to use SharePoint with your trusted partners

How to use SharePoint with your trusted partners For many SharePoint is a bit of a black box. A large number of companies use it as an Intranet or document management system, but few really understand exactly what it can do. SharePoint itself isn’t entirely without blame. The platform has so many features and functions that […]

Eight benefits of using SharePoint as an Extranet

Eight benefits of using SharePoint as an ExtranetSharePoint has a long history of being put to work as an enterprise grade Intranet platform, allowing organisations of all shapes and sizes to drive employee collaboration and communication. Its use as an Extranet tool isn’t quite so common, which is mainly down to some companies not fully […]

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 audienceNote: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. DocRead 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 […]

Types of audiences that can be used by DocRead

Note: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. DocRead uses the SharePoint API to get the list of users that have been assigned to a DocRead audience. Because of limitations with this API DocRead audiences can only contain individual windows users, SharePoint Groups, ASP.Net roles, standard Windows security groups and SharePoint audiences. […]

Amend the Owstimer.exe.config to support DocRead under FBA

Amend the Owstimer.exe.config to support DocRead under FBAIf you choose to use a different authentication mechanism such as FBA that requires a ‘Role’ and ‘Membership’ provider specified in your web.config then you will also need to copy these entries to your owstimer.exe.config file. Here’s an example of a working owstimer.exe.config file that is set-up to use Extradium. […]