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IT Documentation with MediaWiki

We are looking for ways in which to further enhance our documentation and our ability to allow easy access to the information as well as editing the information. With these ideas in mind, we created an internal wiki based upon the MediaWiki…
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Any tools to automate OCR of scanned PDF files in a manner similar to Acrobat's OCR feature?

Open source preferred, but not necessary. I've got Adobe Acrobat 8, and really like the OCR feature which can essentially put an invisible layer of OCR'd text on top of a scanned document. Thus what you see on screen is the original scanned…
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How to implement document management for non-technical end-users?

I've entered a corporate Windows-based environment where document management includes folder naming conventions with numeric or alphabetic prefixes (e.g. 1 Admin, 2 Executive, 3 Marketing) and file naming conventions with embedded dates and initials…
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What software do you recommend for extranet fileserver access?

Right now we have Windows file servers, and more and more groups of departments are wanting to share files for collaborative purposes with our clients. The sharing needs to be bidirectional. It is not likely that we will ever have access to the…
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Text-file based document preparation system

I am looking for a system to prepare internal technical documents that has the following basic features: source files should be human-readable text files, so they play well with revision control supports basic formatting (e.g. images, tables,…
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Laserfiche migration to Alfresco

I have been tasked with migrating a Laserfiche repository to Alfresco (Records Management module). The Laserfiche implementation is hugely underutilized - They've scanned in about 60Gb in the last 9 years, and simply do infrequent lookups based on…
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What do i use to hold the server documentation?

I had to document the servers i use and i don't know what to use to hold the data. Could you sugest the best way to keep the server documentation? Do i create a data base that holds the harware and software documentation, or do i use wiki pages or…
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Anyone recommend a program to print multiple HTML files at once for end users?

I have some clients with multiple html files in folders that are occasionally updated & printed. They would like to be able to print them all at once without having to open each one. I typically do this with a quick command for myself, but I'm…
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What's the best platform to publish documentation to internal users?

My team has a need to publish documentation internally. At the moment, it's spread all over the place and this means we often have to search everywhere to find something. We'd like to publish everything in one place. The main thing that stops us…
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Industry Standards for Internal Documentation?

The organization I work for is a growing one and with that growth comes maturity and with that maturity comes a need to better document. Today it's a hodge-podge of directories, wikis, OneNotes, and none of it is standardized in terms of form or…
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Suggestions for approach on document management?

First this is a subjective questions, so to narrow it down, I'm including some general requirements as I see them for what a good document management system should handle. General Requirements Search Word, PDF, Powerpoint, Excel…
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Allow users to view Word documents only and not be able to edit, copy or save them

In a traditional Windows Server 2003 environment with AD, we have shared a folder for our policy documents (MS Word). These documents get edited/updated now and then by the administrator(principal of college). Users only have read-only access to…
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Sharepoint Document Library not receiving emails

I have created a SharePoint document library which has email enabled. However, when I send email to the designated email address, I don't receive the email & attachment in the list. I have done some R&D and I've found out that in order to receive…
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What do you do about old documents (in old formats)?

We have documents on our network going back many years. Migrating these old files to newer formats hasn't been a big problem, we've always been able do them on an as-needed basis. But we had to open a Word 5.0 document a while back and that…
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What are we supposed to document of our server infrastructure?

It's very important to have decent and good documentation. The problem is that often we might have good documenting techniques, but we forget some crucial points. It can be extremely painful to find these crucial points during a disaster recovery.…
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