DocRead now forces users to “read” and download a document before confirmationDocRead for SharePoint is the only policy management software that integrates straight into SharePoint and allows compliance professionals to distribute and track their policies and procedures. As requested by the majority of our customers, we are proud to announce that DocRead 1.2 now has the ability […]
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What happens if I enable/disable the Email Scheduler?The DocRead Notification Scheduler is responsible for sending out email notifications on a scheduled basis. The scheduler sends out 3 types of emails : Task Assigned – sent to a recipient when they are required to read and confirm / acknowledge a document. Task Confirmed – sent to a recipient […]
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When adding a group or audience to a document why is a new version of a document created?When you add (or update) the Readership Audience for a specific document with a SharePoint Group or Audience you will create a new version of the document when it is saved. We have designed DocRead this way because we found that […]
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What happens when a user leaves a DocRead audience or group?Users may leave a SharePoint audience, (or SharePoint group) for a variety of reasons, such as they have left the organization, they have moved jobs, they have gone on long term sick leave, and so on. When these events happen it’s very likely that they […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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