Category Archives for "Knowledgebase"

How does DocRead deal with Reading Tasks when versioning is enabled on a document library?

How does DocRead deal with Reading Tasks when versioning is enabled on a document library?The way that DocRead deals with libraries with versioning enabled is: DocRead will not touch any documents in draft stage. Documents will only be processed by DocRead once they are published and approved. When DocRead generates reading tasks for Documents the […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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. […]

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How to Add Users to a SharePoint Group

How to Add Users to a SharePoint GroupThis blog post explains how to add users to a SharePoint group! Treat it as a quick-reference guide. You can find step-by-step instructions for both SharePoint online and on-premises versions of SharePoint below.SharePoint Online 1. First, log in as an administrator and navigate to the site where the […]

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10 Powerful Strategies to Boost Employee Compliance

10 Powerful Strategies to Boost Employee Compliance Ensuring that employees comply with company policies is a common challenge faced by many organizations. For example, despite implementing strict security protocols, employees might ignore multi-factor authentication, leaving the company vulnerable to breaches. In another case, an organization may have clear data-handling policies, but employees may inadvertently mishandle customer […]

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DocRead Cockpit release notes – V1.1.3

DocRead Cockpit – Release 1.1.3 In this post, I’ll cover the latest enhancements introduced in the DocRead Cockpit version 1.1.3Export to CSVIn our aim to continue to improve DocRead based on customer feedback we are pleased to announce that we just added the ability to export Assignments and Receipts search results as a CSV file. […]

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