The are three ways to handle access rights in SharePoint.
Using ActiveDirectory Groups
Using SharePoint Groups
Using both of them
I personally recommend to use the first suggestion. Managing the access rights in one system is much easier to administrate, no switching or log off for administration work.
In our SharePoint installation I create for each securable resource and rights type a ActiveDirectory group and assign them organization groups.
A huge disadvantage of this strategy is that after a period of adding ActiveDirectory groups it’s hard to know which of those groups are really required.
In the default document search results in the SharePoint search center it is only possible to open the documents. It is not possible to navigate to the documents location.
This is part two of my experience in handling the password change office365 architecture issue.
Last time I’ve built a simple script to notificate the users about the status of their passwords. In the mean time we (me and another employ of the “vbl Informatik”) built a simple website for the office365 users to change their password.
Sadly none of this services providing a backup nor a download function for the gist files. That’s why I came upwith the idea to download them with PowerShell script.
For first my script only can download public gists, because I don’t know how to implement an authentication, luckily each of my gists is public. I recommend you to do the same, it’s the idea of OpenSource.
To alter the Exchange owa policies you can access them Using the Office365 administration site and navigate to the Exchange section. In the default policy editor are only limited options available.
Content and structure option was present in SharePoint Server 2007, if you are not able to see this option on your SharePoint site in SharePoint 2010 then don’t be surprised, this option still exist in this version as a feature.
There are two sections on which you can see this option, if you are missing this option then lets analyze which sections we are talking about.
The Managed Metadata feature in SharePoint 2010/2013/Office365 enables a new way to manage your documents and other company related informations.
Yet most file systems store their files in an hierarchical structure, with SharePoint and the Managed Metadata Service you can setup a document management system.
To get into this Managed Metadata Service thing, I’ve found a great video.
