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]

​Late last week, Microsoft released SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 and Office 2010 Service Pack 1. A number of the changes are detailed in the following blog post: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=973. Download and installation details for SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 can be found here: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=984. Microsoft is also strongly recommending that you install the June 2011 Cumulative Update (CU) immediately af ...[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]

MacroView Managing Director, Noel Williams, will be speaking at the upcoming Sinch Online Legal Services Conference on March 11, 2011 to be held at the City Tattersalls Club in Sydney. Noel will be speaking on the topic 'Microsoft SharePoint - the Next Generation of Legal Document Management'. The Conference will feature around 25 of the world's foremost legal technology and web services pioneers who will share their experience about the most crucial technology issues affecting the legal indust ...[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]

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]

Assigning unique Document Numbers or Document IDs to documents as they are saved to SharePoint is a frequent requirement for organizations that are looking to use SharePoint as their Document Management platform.   Actually generating the unique Document ID is only part of the requirement - the unique Document ID must also be displayed in documents that are opened from SharePoint into Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Typically the Document ID and other ke ...[Read More]

MacroView Unique Document Numbering  (UDN) automatically assigns the next available Document Number to each file as it is loaded to a document library in SharePoint for which the UDN feature has been activated. As a result, files have Doc IDs that are unique across a Site Collection, or even across a Web Application. This number assignment happens regardless of how the file is uploaded or saved – e.g. by uploading in the web browser UI of SharePoint, saving from Word, using Windows Explorer ...[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]

Many organisations are saving scanned images as PDFs in SharePoint document libraries and wanting to create processing workflows that involve working with those PDFs in Adobe Acrobat. The problem occurs when you are finished editing and want to re-save the PDF back to SharePoint. Adobe Acrobat out-of-the-box will replace the PDF (rather than create a new version) and not prompt for metadata.  You need to go into the web browser UI of SharePoint to set the metadata as if the PDF were being sa ...[Read More]