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If you receive the 'Word experienced an error when trying to open the file' (as below), it's highly likely you are running Office 2010 in protected mode. Read this blog post to see how to solve it.

SharePoint 15 is coming and it's coming to beta this year (we think). In reality - no one really knows - so I guess we need to sit tight and guess. I am intending to keep this list of useful SharePoint 15 resources up to date, over the next few months.

We recently received query for DocRead to see if it was possible to set the 'Required Audience' and 'Acknowledgement Days' to about 100 policies on mass (via a script). Hence, being one who is always up for a challenge, I cranked open PowerGUI and set to work.

This post explains how to create a new Document Library in SharePoint 2010. It also explains the creation of 2 columns that can (optionally) be configured for use with DocRead.

We are proud to announce the next set of features that have been agreed for our Roadmap. We are working closely with our clients to release features important to them first but everything below will be included in DocRead v2 (due for release in Spring 2012).

This blog post outlines how to distribute a document contained in a DocRead enabled Document Library. Documents can either be distributed to SharePoint Groups or Audiences.

Just decided to have a few minutes investigation into the recently released SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model SDK to see if there is any insight into whats coming up! Here's some very findings..

SharePoint 2010 Top Tips : How to add documents to a SharePoint document library. This user friendly step-by-step guide shows you how to add a document to a SharePoint 2010 document library.

This blog post explains in very simple terms how to add users to a SharePoint group! Treat it as a quick-reference guide.

This blog post explains in very simple terms how to create a SharePoint group! Treat it as a quick-reference guide.

I was recently trying to programmatically set the default (welcome) page of a team site, but my changes weren't taking effect. This post explains how to get around it.

This post will discuss how to create a Survey in SharePoint using out of the box functionality and nothing else! The example we will use is to create a survey that asks employees to answer questions about their previous training in the organisation.

This SharePoint code example illustrates how to develop a helper method to return an SPFile based on a Web, folder and file name.

A potential customer asked how DocRead stores its data. The reply went something like this.

If your SharePoint farm has been configured to use an SMTP server, then it is possible to send an email in code using the SPUtility class. The c# code below illustrates how to send a mail and return an XML string outlining what was sent for logging purposes :

Once a solution has been added to SharePoint, then there's no apparent way to download it. Using the SharePoint object model we can easily download a wsp using the 'SaveAs' method. The C# code below illustrates how to download all of the solutions in the farm with just a few lines

If you have ever tried to delete a web either in code, or via the SharePoint GUI, then you will note that isn't possible if the web has one or more child webs. (or grandchildren). To delete a web, you must first delete it's subwebs.

SharePoint 2010 was released in April 2010 and was Microsofts 3rd incarnation of SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 is now a highly popular server product aligned to the Microsoft Office family.

SharePoint Workflow allows a set of activities to process in either sequential or parrallell, moreofthe than not one of more of those activities involves a human activity such as 'approve a document', or 'complete a task' and so on.

Information Management Policies in SharePoint in my experience, are not used that heavily, but are an extremely easy way to apply policies to your documents. They are accessible from 'Library Settings' and are configurable per content type. For example, this means that all 'documents' in the library will have the policy applied.