This is Part 4 in the series Managing Documents with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 - MacroView DMF Adds Value in 10 Ways. For the full text of this article, click here. The ability to capture and use metadata is a key to effective document management. SharePoint 2010 has significantly improved capabilities in relation to metadata, in particular support for Managed Metadata columns based on hierarchical Term Sets. These allow organizations to satisfy a common document management need, namel ...[Read More]

This is Part 3 in the series Managing Documents with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 - MacroView DMF Adds Value in 10 Ways. For the full text of this article, click here. From a document management perspective, improved search capability is one of the standout features of SharePoint 2010. Ironically though, you cannot perform a search for documents from within Office 2010 – you need to go into the web browser. MacroView DMF™ adds value by making it easy and convenient for users to search ...[Read More]

This is Part 2 in the series Managing Documents with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 - MacroView DMF Adds Value in 10 Ways. For the full text of this article, click here. The most frequent type of enquiry we receive is from organisations that have been trying to use SharePoint as a means of managing their email messages. They find that even when they are using Outlook 2010 and SharePoint 2010 that the experience is far from user-friendly. These frustrations are much the same as with Office 2 ...[Read More]

This is Part 1 in the series Managing Documents with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 - MacroView DMF Adds Value in 10 Ways. For the full text of this article, click here. Many organisations are looking to use SharePoint to replace Windows File Shares for central storage of their Office documents and other files. From an IT perspective the advantages of this use of SharePoint are clear – they include richer searching, versioning and web-based access. However as business users start to use S ...[Read More]