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]

​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]

​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 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]

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]

MacroView DMF provides excellent support for capturing and utilising metadata to enable effective management of documents and emails on Microsoft SharePoint. Three key features of DMF in relation to metadata handling are:   1) automatic recording of email attributes, such as To, From, Subject, etc as emails are saved to SharePoint from Outlook; 2) automatic recording of file system attributes such as Created Date, Last Modified Date, Author and Producer as files are uploaded to SharePoint ...[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 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]