Assurance Articles

Understanding Personal Data in Data Processing

Personal data (also referred to as PII – Personal Identifiable Information) identifies an individual. In that personal data, a name by itself is not enough to identify an individual, however, a name including the address would. For example, when you are called by an...

Microsoft SOC and ISO Audit Reports Available

One of the most useful documents in my view in planning implementations of Office365 is understanding data encryption and data backup and the standards applied. Microsoft have provided audit reports covering their cloud stack (Dynamics CRM, Office365, Yammer and...

Content Management Systems – Principles and Concepts of Information Assurance

A major challenge in businesses is a misconception, that data is 100% secure concerning any part of its data processing within that business. This data processing concerns the content management lifecycle; from creation, to storage, to distribution, to workflow and...

SharePoint Security and helping users become more aware

A key aspect of implementing SharePoint in an organisation is relevant to security of content. The success of SharePoint in an organisation is due not only to how comfortable users are with using their current technology with SharePoint, it is also down to ensuring...

Office 2013 support in Office 365 … The end is nigh…

Assurance, Microsoft 365, My Blogs

Being a Microsoft Office 365 Partner am keen to follow any news concerning feature changes and updates to Office365....

Understanding Personal Data in Data Processing

Assurance, Automation, Microsoft 365

Personal data (also referred to as PII – Personal Identifiable Information) identifies an individual. In that personal...

Analysing Site Activity in SharePoint 2013

Assurance, Random Muslings

Tracking site usage is a very important method of identifying and helping sustain user adoption of a SharePoint 2013 site. Using site usage statistics can help prove the take up of a new SharePoint site, identify shortfalls in the design, and indicates how searches...

Opening Mind Manager Files in SharePoint

Assurance, Random Muslings

Summary Ok, time for a quick article as I am such a Mind Manager fan (you've probably have guessed because of the amount of Mind Manager outputs on my site)! The challenge for those using Mind Manager in SharePoint is that whenever they attempt to open a file in...

SharePoint – Building a Project Management solution in six steps

Assurance, Microsoft 365

I was asked to describe how a small team, who has never seen SharePoint or Project before, could take on a SharePoint look at Project Management tools focused Information Worker level. By doing this, a Project Management solution could be created whereby solving...

Creating a SharePoint Communication Message Framework

Assurance

One of the most difficult areas of delivering a SharePoint solution is identifying not just who should be targetted for User Adoption, but, going forward, how to sustain that User Adoption through communication. Reasons include rapid changes in the business culture,...

SharePoint 2013 Helpdesk Site Available

Assurance, Random Muslings

I have created a basic SharePoint 2013 helpdesk template which you can try out, modify and apply as a helper to their SharePoint support desks. The reason for supplying this is to (a) give an understanding of the ability of SharePoint to provide basic helpdesk...

How to connect a SharePoint 2013 Document Library to Outlook 2013

Assurance

One of the key methods of gaining User Adoption of SharePoint is ensuring and pushing the integration it has with Microsoft Office to information workers. After all, information workers generally use Outlook as their 'mother-ship'. Getting those users to switch...

How to quickly list documents and sub folders from a Document Library in SharePoint to a file

Assurance, Random Muslings

I have been asked by quite a few people on listing documents from document libraries that include sub-folders; so I'd like to share with you a poor-man method of listing all files and folders in a document library in SharePoint with hundreds of files and folders, and...

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Office Rights Namespace

Assurance

A pictorial showing the defined views for the information policy namespace in SharePoint Download: officeirmpolicy

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