Running SharePoint as your corporate data sharing platform allows you to keep your employees connected and updated. But when your data is spread across platforms, systems and applications, you need to connect to each of them, source data and synchronize as necessary. If you were storing the necessary data distributed across secured, Line of Business […]

SharePoint administrators always desire and seek ways to improve SharePoint performance. Here are some ways to help enhance the performance of SharePoint as well as to extract the maximum from the SharePoint Servers. Cache Lists – In environments where most List related requests are read only operations, it helps to cache Lists so that the requests […]

The classification of SharePoint content is a significant factor in ensuring that it is stored properly and that users get the right content while searching. It creates a uniform information schema that is common between users and applications. This allows content to be saved, organized, shared and retrieved through search queries. Large groups of SharePoint […]

Improving SharePoint content classification and providing better Search results is an ongoing task. As businesses grow and their SharePoint content swells, it requires regular tweaks to improve crawling and indexing focused on providing better Search results. Explained below are the points you need to take care of to improve search and how you can use […]

Organizing content in SharePoint whether existing or new is a challenging task. Since SharePoint users upload and share data through this platform there is a need to classify content, right from the beginning. Hence administrators and content owners will do better if they follow content classification and management protocols which will help them accommodate their […]

With usage SharePoint content database expands to a huge volume. The database expands as it has to accommodate documents (with multiple versions), the metadata, deleted content stored in the Site Collections Recycle Bin, various kinds of audit logs, transaction logs and reports, the Office Web Apps Cache used to store content for rendering and the […]

Re-organizing unorganized content in SharePoint is always a painstaking task. If documents have been uploaded and dumped without planning in Lists, then they pose a challenge as the SharePoint administrators and content owners have to take great pains to re-organize content into respective Lists & Libraries under various Sub-Sites. Though creating a new Site by […]

SharePoint 2010 is upgraded to SharePoint 2013 in a long sequence of steps. Since databases are an important constituent for the successful running of SharePoint, the upgrade process is carried out using the database attach method. This involves creation of a Farm, copying content and SharePoint application databases, followed by attaching and upgrading the databases. […]

A platform like SharePoint offers users a great way to create exchange and expand their content. But it has to be administered efficiently to keep SharePoint content under manageable limits. An uncontrolled growth can soon lead to content bloat. That is when administrators and content owners have to step in to carry out content management […]

– Grant, Revoke, Modify Permissions on Shares, Folders and Files With Vyapin’s NTFS security Manager you can modify the security permissions of Shares, Folders and Files present in your network without affecting the inheritance from the parent object. Vyapin’s NTFS Security Manager has been architected using the latest Microsoft .NET technology, bringing you the best-in-breed […]

Our products install and maintain their respective application files in Program Files or Program Files (x86) folder, unless the default location is changed by the user. Post-installation, when launching the product the first time, the user has the option to specify a drive location for storing the application worker files such as settings, error log, tasks […]

Most of the content migration to SharePoint involves migration of archived and active contents from different systems such as file servers, network shared folders and other document management systems (e.g., Humming Bird, DocuShare, DocsOpen). This is an impending task apart from migrating frequently changing folders and files in the current storage system on a day-to-day […]

In continuation with the previous blog post that deals with the folder and file rename options, here we discuss how to deal with renaming of folders/files that contain illegal characters. As said earlier, folders and files residing in legacy systems will have having special characters that are invalid (disallowed) in SharePoint. DocKIT facilitates this renaming […]

SharePoint Server 2010’s yet another new capability Document Sets facilitate managing documents as an entity based on their metadata (document property). The entity can be categorized based on the need or task which shares a common set of attributes and can be versioned as a whole (instead of individual documents) in SharePoint. The Content Type […]