Assurance Articles

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...

Port, Pies and SharePoint Support

Merry Christmas Everyone! As the seasonal period quickly approaches, the discussions concerning what happens to supporting SharePoint over the holiday either approaches, or has been covered, or even assumed. The Christmas period is of course where your SharePoint...

What is Microsoft Office System Service Delivery?

This quick article is going to explain the basis of Microsoft Office Systems Service Delivery (centered a little on SharePoint, ahem) and why it is so important to have in your organization. Also, check out my book (on this link) which covers a lot more on this topic....

Microsoft SOC and ISO Audit Reports Available

Assurance, Automation, Microsoft 365

One of the most useful documents in my view in planning implementations of Office365 is understanding data encryption...

Content Management Systems – Principles and Concepts of Information Assurance

Assurance, Good Read

A major challenge in businesses is a misconception, that data is 100% secure concerning any part of its data...

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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