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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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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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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How do I segregate tasks so that one department can’t see anothers ?A customer recently asked .. “Is there any way to segregate out what is seen there by default…example…I give the HR Director security to “publish” documents, and also IT Director has that same ability….but that means that both will be able to see […]
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How to restore tasks to a site that’s been deactivatedPlease Note : This Knowledgebase Article requires you to have recent backup’s of the DocRead database and the SharePoint content database. If you don’t have these, then this solution is not possible. There are methods to restore tasks from receipts, but this is far more complicated […]
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