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Is it Healthy to use SharePoint to Store Safety and Compliance Training Records? Yes and No.
Is it Healthy to use SharePoint to Store Safety and Compliance Training Records? Yes and No.
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When delivering training for health and safety reasons or for compliance with regulations, it’s usual to document that people have been through training, so that if something goes wrong, you have proof of the training. To quote the US OSHA (www.osha.gov/Publications/osha2254.pdf): Documentation can also supply an answer to one of the first questions an accident investigator will ask: “Was the injured employee trained to do the job?

SharePoint seems a reasonable place to store documentation of training, either to scan in any paper attendance or completion forms, or else if training is conducted online to use SharePoint list and record-keeping details to get the employee to confirm that they have received the training. If it’s stored in SharePoint, it will be retained with other data and accessible into the long term future, and so the initial answer to the question seems a “yes”.

Leveraging SharePoint and Colligo to Replace Traditional Email Archiving Solutions
Leveraging SharePoint and Colligo to Replace Traditional Email Archiving Solutions
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Recently, we’ve been working with a customer on a particularly interesting use case for SharePoint that I thought others in the community might be interested in learning more about. The customer is using Zantaz (from Autonomy/HP) for email archiving with a primary focus around eDiscovery, email retention and legal hold. A number of factors are driving the review their current implementation, including its age and cost to maintain, and concerns about the recent flux in HP strategy

10 Reasons Why SharePoint Performance Can Slow
10 Reasons Why SharePoint Performance Can Slow
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In recent months, we’ve seen customers who are doing major migrations of documents—for example, from file servers—to SharePoint. Far too often, one of the complaints I hear voiced in these scenarios is how slow the upload can be, particularly when uploading huge numbers of documents. I thought it would be worth starting a discussion of lessons learned related to performance of mass uploads. This is a fairly targeted business scenario—most organizations don’t do this too often—but it also brings up some key points to consider about performance in other SharePoint scenarios.

The following are among the factors that can cause performance of mass uploads to suffer:

• The recovery model for the content database (a SQL Server setting) is set to full by default.

SharePoint Shootout: Workflow on SharePoint - at the European SharePoint Conference
SharePoint Shootout: Workflow on SharePoint – at the European SharePoint Conference
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It sometimes can be hard for customers to understand the value of products that are added to SharePoint. Many times it is very difficult for customers to compare tools that appear similar but are yet different. The SharePoint “Shoot Out” at the 2011 European SharePoint Conference in Berlin aims to have four top Microsoft partners in each of two categories (Workflow and Administration) shoot it out in public to help customers see the unique value and the differences. Customers will also be able to interact and meet the “top guns” from these companies. These two moderated sessions promise to be very informative and lots of fun.

Fault free document submissions into SharePoint
Fault free document submissions into SharePoint
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Fenestrae are Sliver Exhibitors at the the European SharePoint Conference in Berlin from the 17th – 20th October

Over the last few weeks we’ve enriched the functionalities of UDOCX and the interface displayed on the screen of the multifunctional devices in order to provide additional features to the “Scan to SharePoint” operation.

How easy can scanning to SharePoint be?
How easy can scanning to SharePoint be?
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In our last week’s article we introduced UDOCX as the only cloud-based service that integrates physical scanned documents with SharePoint and Exchange.

The UDOCX “Scan-to-SharePoint version” is not only about storing documents into SharePoint and integrating them into internal or external business workflows (which is crucial for business productivity). It’s also about being very user-friendly for both users and administrators. UDOCX is the easiest and most convenient way for employees to scan documents into SharePoint!

SharePoint users want to integrate their manually scanned documents in SharePoint
SharePoint users want to integrate their manually scanned documents in SharePoint
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Every month organizations around the world generate thousands of physical documents that need to be manually scanned using multifunctional devices or dedicated scanners. Those documents are stored in SharePoint, and integrated into internal or external business workflows. Documents that are transmitted to external parties (by fax, mail or email) often need to be copied, scanned and then stored into a SharePoint archive (for legal or internal policy reasons). All of those scanned documents need to be easily accessible and retrievable based on key attributes (tags).