Eight benefits of using SharePoint as an ExtranetSharePoint has a long history of being put to work as an enterprise grade Intranet platform, allowing organisations of all shapes and sizes to drive employee collaboration and communication. Its use as an Extranet tool isn’t quite so common, which is mainly down to some companies not fully […]
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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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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 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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An SP24 Adventure – Putting it all together This post is part of a series of posts about the SP24 Virtual SharePoint Conference By October 2013, we had built SPCOM to nearly 4000 members, and the LinkedIn group which I moderate contained around 29,000. We knew we had a good reach to tell people about […]
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What is Regulatory Compliance and how it affects your businessWhat is Regulatory ComplianceRegulatory compliance is the process of meeting regulatory requirements. The regulations are usually enforced by a regulatory body such as a government or an industry association to help organizations stay in business and avoid penalties and sanctions imposed by the regulator.Regulatory compliance has […]
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Here are 98 free, awesome, eye-watering SharePoint sessions from SP24This post is part of a series of posts about the SP24 Virtual SharePoint Conference: Over the last 12 months Collaboris have been heavily involved in developing and organizing a free, virtual SharePoint Conference called SP24 that went out to over 7500 attendees. SP24 originally took […]
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Managing SP24 – A sneak peak behind the scenes This post is part of a series of posts about the SP24 Virtual SharePoint Conference: SP24 was the world’s largest, on-line, SharePoint virtual Conference. We welcomed a staggering 7600 avid SharePoint fans through the virtual SP24 conference doors. Collaboris were heavily involved in pulling the conference […]
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An SP24 Adventure – The big dayThis post is part of a series of posts about the SP24 Virtual SharePoint Conference: The big day – Conference time! The build-up on the day of the big ‘go live’ gradually got more stressful as it progressed. We were behind on tasks such as sending out the necessary […]
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An SP24 Adventure – My story On April 16th 2014, I was part of a team that ran the world’s largest virtual, SharePoint Conference known as SP24. This was one of the most enjoyable projects I have ever worked on, but also one of the most challenging. We built the platform on SharePoint 2013 Foundation […]
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