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Blog Oct 5th,2019

Displaying AutoCAD drawings in SharePoint Search

Earlier this year Microsoft announced new integration with Autodesk AutoCAD for Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint. We work with several clients who use AutoCAD drawings extensively, and this had previously been a major limitation of storing drawing files in SharePoint. When a user navigates to a library, and selects a DWG file, the file opens in the AutoCAD preview app in the browser. (fig 1 and fig 2) Fig 1 – SharePoint Library containing dwg files Fig 2 – AutoCad preview from SharePoint Library Unfortunately, SharePoint Search still does not open AutoCAD drawing files in the preview app. When the user clicks on a dwg result, the default experience if for t…

Earlier this year Microsoft announced new integration with Autodesk AutoCAD for Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint. We work with several clients who use AutoCAD drawings extensively, and …

Blog Sep 18th,2019

SR1 Development Becomes a Microsoft Authorized …

SR1 Development today announced it has become a Microsoft Authorized Education Partner (AEP), demonstrating its ability to meet Microsoft academic customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic…

Blog Sep 10th,2019

Office 365 Newcastle

Office 365 has substantially changed the IT landscape over the last few years. Any business, regardless of size and turnover can now have access to world class cloud hosted IT infrastructure.…

Blog Sep 4th,2019

SharePoint’s great, but don’t forget your users!

Having seen and worked on many SharePoint implementations over the last 15 years, its still amazing to see how many companies overlook even the most basic of user training. Often large intranet, document management, search and workflow projects can result in substantial investment. This could include software costs, internal IT staff costs, marketing costs, external consultancy costs, 3rd party tool, and many others. This can often result in fantastic SharePoint solutions being developed and released into a company network. Unfortunately, quite often users are then just left to get on with it, expected to know how to use these new tools. Anyone who works with SharePoin…

Having seen and worked on many SharePoint implementations over the last 15 years, its still amazing to see how many companies overlook even the most basic of user training. Often large int…

Blog Aug 27th,2019

Enhancing SharePoint Search by utilising Micros…

By leveraging SharePoint metadata to correctly tag our documents we can build world class search functionality allowing users to easily find content dispersed across SharePoint farms or tenan…

Blog Aug 27th,2019

Launch of new Website

We hope the site gives you a good overview of the SharePoint and Office 365 services we can provide. SR1 Development are pleased to announce the launch of our new website. Custom ShareP…