Good network monitoring and reporting tools report important network events from multiple locations, to the network administrator. It’s either delivered to his email inbox or deposited at the indicated location in the preferred file format, at the designated time. All these network events have to be reported along with their correct time and date. However […]

Migrating from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2013 is a challenging task as 2003 is an antiquated system compared to the new and vastly capable SharePoint 2013. Apart from having to adapt to the huge difference in technology, a lot of effort will also be required in cleansing the redundancy in the 2003 database. Besides this, […]

Migrating content from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013 can pose some challenges. Here is a list of challenges you may face when migrating from SharePoint 2007. Switching from 32 bit to 64 bit environment SharePoint 2007 was used in a 32 bit environment whereas the new SharePoint 2013 works in a 64 bit environment. Hence […]

Here are some useful tips to help you carry out a successful SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 upgrade. Plan and prepare your SharePoint 2013 destination Before you actually begin upgrading your Site Collections and databases to SharePoint 2013, you need to plan how you will setup the SharePoint 2013 Farm, create and connect the database […]

SharePoint 2013 has several new and improved features that enrich user experience, improve content management and reinforce content security. These features and how they benefit SharePoint 2013 users are listed below. Content authoring: Content authors can now copy content from Word documents and paste them directly in various content editors in SharePoint 2013. The pasted […]

Migrating documents & files in file shares to SharePoint Online in Office 365 or from an existing on premise SharePoint farm to SharePoint Online in Office 365 can be challenging task for several reasons. Here is a list of common SharePoint online migration challenges that one might encounter when migrating to the SharePoint cloud. A […]

There are several tools out there to migrate file shares to SharePoint. However, if you are facing difficulties in choosing the right SharePoint migration tool, here are 7 very important tips: 1. Automation is the most important feature that a migration tool must have, especially because of the sheer volume of files and folders present […]

Reporting on SharePoint is an important organization-wide requirement based on the different functional aspects of SharePoint governance and administration. A comprehensive SharePoint Reporting should broadly cover the following report categories: SharePoint Audit and Compliance Reports These reports should address the regulatory compliance needs (such as SOX, HIPAA etc.). The reports should carry information about all […]

Duplicate file handling The Alternate File name mask feature facilitates duplicate file handling when exporting files to the file system. We have introduced a new option to rename the new file by using a file name mask. Figure #1: Renaming a file with the Alternate File Name Mask Enhanced ‘File version handling settings’ for the […]

“The column values could not be assigned for this file, since there was no corresponding entry in the external metadata file” DocKIT assigns metadata when migrating documents to SharePoint. DocKIT can also assign metadata to documents that already reside in SharePoint. You can assign the same metadata for all documents / files in a folder […]

Vyapin’s Audit solution for Active Directory helps you to take complete control over your auditing and reporting needs for your entire Active Directory. Vyapin’s solution lets you audit not only your entire AD configuration but also audit all the changes that occur over a period of time in your AD. Vyapin provides two product solutions […]

SharePoint 2010 offers permissions to manage its resources using different permission levels. It provides more granular control on permissions starting from the entire farm to item level security, as continued from SharePoint 2007. The permissions can be defined for users and groups using the default permission levels available out-of-the-box or you can define custom permission […]

Microsoft Exchange Administrators need to constantly monitor various objects in Exchange, especially when granting permissions for mailboxes and public folders. Managing permission levels can be quite challenging as certain permissions are explicitly defined, while others are inherited by virtue of membership (‘who has access to what and how?’). Exchange Admins constantly face the challenge of […]

The primary objective of having individual user accounts and computers clubbed as ‘Groups’ in Active Directory registry is to simplify the administration overhead involved in managing numerous Active Directory objects. With Groups, it is easy for the IT administrators to define policies for similar objects and manage them under a common schema. However, monitoring the […]