How to use Search (KeywordQuery) to query user profiles in SharePoint

How to use Search (KeywordQuery) to query user profiles in SharePointHave you ever need to write C# code that returns a list of people (user profiles) and for it also to be lightning quick? Obviously, you could use the UserProfileManager to do this, but be warned it’s NOT quick as you more often that not […]

Lifecycle of Policy or Procedure in SharePoint

Lifecycle of Policy or Procedure in SharePointOver the last few weeks I have been working on a white paper called ‘Life-cycle of a policy or procedure in SharePoint’. One of the main staples of this whitepaper is going to be diagram depicting what the life-cycle looks like. Here’s a sneak preview: The starting point for any […]

What is the difference between a SharePoint Group and a SharePoint Audience

What is the difference between a SharePoint Group and a SharePoint AudienceWhat is a SharePoint Group ? A SharePoint group can be created by a user from within SharePoint and requires that user to manually add or remove users. A SharePoint group can also contain many Active Directory groups (which themselves can contain child AD […]

How to add a web part to every users MySite in 5 minutes

How to add a web part to every users MySite in 5 minutesThis post will outline how to add a web part to every users MySite. The web part we are going to add is the standard DocRead Reading Tasks web part, but this process can be applied to any web part in SharePoint.MySite host […]

Using metadata to classify policies

Using metadata to classify policiesIn this post, we will to find out how SharePoint metadata can be used to tag and classify a policy to make it more discoverable. Along with search, managed metadata is a service in SharePoint that operates at the organization level to allow for comprehensive classification and tagging of enterprise content. […]

How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint 2019

Note: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. If you are considering migrating your SharePoint 2016 Farm to SharePoint 2019 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 affects your DocRead and DocSurvey […]

How to delete a SharePoint Survey in 4 steps

How to delete a SharePoint Survey in 4 stepsThis blog post will explain the steps needed to remove/delete a survey from SharePoint. It does not matter whether the survey was created in SharePoint or with DocSurvey, the steps required to remove it are the same. 1) Navigate to the site containing the survey and then […]

Policies and Procedures Lifecycle: Policy creation and revision

Policy creation and revisionThis post explains how SharePoint’s document management features can be used to help manage the policies and procedures lifecycle.SharePoint is big, really big!SharePoint is now the worlds most popular document management system. Most organizations are using SharePoint to not only manage their documents but also as an Intranet, search engine, application hosting […]

Code Sample : How to programmatically get an SPFile in SharePoint

Code Sample : How to programmatically get an SPFile in SharePointThis example illustrates how to develop a helper method to return an SPFile based on a Web, folder and filename.

How to support multiple versions of SharePoint in a single Visual Studio solution

How to support multiple versions of SharePoint in a single Visual Studio solutionIf you are ever tasked with having to support more than one version of SharePoint in a Visual Studio Solution (e.g SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013), then this post will hopefully be of some help! Before I get started – if after reading […]