How to make sure your team read and sign documents without using paper.

How to make sure your team read and sign documents without using paper.The notion of a paperless office has been around for years. Yet, even in the era of collaborative technologies (such as SharePoint), mobiles devices and information overload, we still don’t seem able to get rid of physical copies.The process of reading and of […]

How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint 2019

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 licensing.Preparing your SharePoint 2016 Farm:It is important to know that we […]

25+ Tools and Services to use in a SharePoint software company

25+ Tools and Services to use in a SharePoint software companyAfter publishing ‘Running a SharePoint software company‘ I got a lot of thank you’s for mentioning Trello. (Apparently, not many had heard of it). Anyway, this got me thinking. Wouldn’t it be great to put together a list showing some of the tools and services […]

Regulatory Compliance – Top Features

Regulatory Compliance – Top 10 FeaturesThis series of blog post will highlight features that SharePoint has in order to allow regulatory compliance. There are in fact, many regulations that require compliance for an organisation, these will depend on the type of industry, the country and/or type of business that the organisation is involved with. To […]

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. […]

Why no one reads your Intranet homepage​

Why no one reads your Intranet homepage​Not only is an un-engaging Intranet dull for your staff, it also represents a missed opportunity for cross-business communication and an underused investment. In order to get the best out of their SharePoint solution, administrators need to think creatively about how they might best invigorate their Intranet. Google Analytics […]

Code Sample : How to programmatically delete a web (and it’s child webs)

Code Sample : How to programmatically delete a web (and it’s child webs)If you have ever tried to delete a web either in code, or via the SharePoint GUI, then you will note that isn’t possible if the web has one or more child webs. (or grandchildren). To delete a web, you must first delete it’s […]

A list of the best SharePoint discussion forums and groups

A list of the best SharePoint discussion forums and groupsBoth new and experienced SharePoint developers, architects and end-users need to discuss problems and chew over ideas about SharePoint. There are quite a few major forums and groups out there,  such as the SharePoint Community Group on Linked, but there are even more! So, to help […]

How to learn SharePoint and where to get the training

How to learn SharePoint and where to get the trainingI have moderated the ‘SharePoint Community Group‘ on LinkedIn daily for four years now and the main questions are always around where to find good training and learning materials about SharePoint. Here’s a list of what I think are very valuable sites, books, people and apps […]

SharePoint Account Permissions and Security Settings

SharePoint Account Permissions and Security SettingsIf you ever need to understand what the WSS_WPG or WSS_ADMIN_WPG groups can and can’t do in SharePoint – look no further! The articles linked below outline their rights in great detail. It not only details what groups the various service accounts in SharePoint belong to, but also what permissions those […]