Interested in using Microsoft SharePoint to store, find and share your Microsoft Outlook messages? Finding that the out-of-the-box integration of Outlook and SharePoint is awkward to use? SharePoint add-on software called MacroView Message may well be the answer.  (  Download a PDF of the full article here ) Out-of-the-box Outlook / SharePoint Integration There are a number of ways you can save an email message to SharePoint using the native facilities of Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Sha ...[Read More]

With its native document management capabilities, SharePoint is attractive to many organizations. The IT area sees SharePoint as a way to improve upon storing emails in Outlook folders and other files in network file shares. From a management perspective extending the use of SharePoint to email and document management makes sense because it means that the organization is extracting more value from its investment in SharePoint. This is particularly the view when the organization is paying mainte ...[Read More]

​Recently a large professional services firm with international operations conducted an evaluation of MacroView DMF. The firm was interested in moving to a SharePoint-based solution to replace their existing OpenText / Hummingbird system. They liked the way MacroView DMF extended and enhanced the functionality and user experience for performing DM tasks on SharePoint, but were concerned as to whether SharePoint would be able to cope with their large document stores. They were doubtful as to whe ...[Read More]

​To demonstrate that MacroView DMF enables intuitive designs of large-scale SharePoint document stores that have good performance and efficient resource utilisation, MacroView created a large-scale SharePoint document store called ‘ATLAS’. See also Large-scale document management on Microsoft SharePoint. The ATLAS implementation has a single ‘Clients’ Site Collection containing over 30,000 subsites (each corresponding to a particular Client or Customer. Each Client sub-site has between 2 and ...[Read More]

MacroView is pleased to announce the release of MacroView DMF v7.2 and MacroView Message v7.2.   MacroView DMF already provides market-leading functionality and features for managing documents and emails on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Popular features of DMF include an intuitive tree-view for visualising and navigating the SharePoint document store, extensive drag and drop support and best-in-class support for saving  and re-saving PDFs to SharePoint direct from Adobe Reader / Acroba ...[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]

MacroView is pleased to announce the public availability of MacroView DMF™ v7. MacroView DMF v7 is the latest major release of the MacroView Document Management Framework. MacroView DMF is already used by hundreds of organisations in dozens of countries for SharePoint document management. As well as introducing support for SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010, this release includes a large number of improvements including many suggested by our partners and customers. The result is that Macro ...[Read More]

MacroView DMF v7 will support SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. In addition DMF v7 has a range of other enhanced Document Management capabilities, many of which have been suggested by the growing band of DMF customers and supporters around the world. In this post we summarise the new features of DMF v7. Support for SharePoint 2010 – Servers in the DMF v7 tree can run SharePoint Server 2010 or SharePoint Foundation 2010. Servers running Moss 2007 or WSSv3 continue to be supported. Support for ...[Read More]

Once an organisation starts using SharePoint as their means of storing email messages and other files, they typically find that their SharePoint document store rapidly gets large. ‘Large’ has a number of dimensions – it can be that there are a large number of nodes in the tree of Site Collections, Sites, Libraries and Folders, with deep nesting sites within sites within sites and folders within folders within libraries. ‘Large’ can also mean that there are a great number of files stored in so ...[Read More]

Email-enabling a document library creates an SMTP email address that you can include in the CC or BCC list so that a copy of the email is sent to that library.   The problem with out-of-the-box SharePoint is that the resulting messages have naming, formatting and metadata handling that is very different (and inferior) to messages that have been saved by drag and drop using MacroView DMF or MacroView Message.    MacroView Email Handler is a better way to email-enable your document librari ...[Read More]