One of the facilities offered by traditional Document Management systems is the ability to ‘freeze’ documents that are subject to legal action – often referred to as placing a ‘Legal Hold’ on the documents. MacroView Enhanced Document Level Security facilitates the placing of Legal Holds over documents that are stored in Microsoft SharePoint. MacroView Enhanced Document Level Security utilises the native document level security features of Microsoft SharePoint 2007. For example by checking ...[Read More]

One of the things that makes Microsoft SharePoint potentially useful for Document management is its support for capturing additional metadata for documents, email messages and other files as you save them, together with its support for searching based on metadata. When it comes to capturing metadata, a requirement that occurs quite often is to have 'Cascading' Lookup columns - i.e. the valid values that are displayed for one Lookup column in a document library being dependent on the value y ...[Read More]

There are a range of specialist migration toolkits available to handle the bulk migration to SharePoint from existing File Shares and Microsoft Outlook / Exchange. However many organizations are looking for a way to enable individual users to migrate their own files and key email messages into their new SharePoint document management environment. Using this 'grass roots' approach to migration can be quite appropriate - it not only removes a major resource-intensive task from the IT Depart ...[Read More]