SharePoint Customer Portals
 The
kalmstrom.com team has helped the US business advisory firm
Alexander Remington
International Associates, Inc. (ARI) to migrate
lots of documents from a cloud based file storage system
into SharePoint. Here are glimpses of that project.
One site collection per customer
ARI's main request was that kalmstrom.com would build site
collections to be used by the ARI customers, so that each
customer had their own site collection.
The customers log in to their site collections with their
free Microsoft accounts, so there is no SharePoint Online
license fee for them.
The home page of each site collection displays a summary
of all document libraries in that collection. The site collections
are then intended to be customized with additional resources,
like instructional videos, links and other self-service
features.
The kalmstrom.com team created the site collections and
moved all data from the earlier cloud based file storage
system into SharePoint libraries in different site collections,
in general one library for each folder in the earlier storage
system.
We also added a custom SharePoint Search Center to perform
a smooth search.
Custom security groups
Instead of using the default SharePoint security groups,
we added two groups with different permissions to the site
collections, one for ARI employees and one for their customers.
In general, the customers have permission to upload documents
only to one library, called Inbox, but they can search and
read documents in the other libraries. The employees are
the people who administer the site collections, so they
must of course have full rights.
PowerShell to migrate data
 A
PowerShell script helped us migrate all the existing files,
from the folders in the file storage system to each customer’s
specific document libraries. There were so many files that
a manual transfer would have been practically impossible,
but once the PowerShell script had been constructed the
process was quick.
As you probably know, SharePoint sets a new created day
when you upload files to document libraries. With our PowerShell
script the original created dates of the files are retained.
Let us assist you!
This project is just an example on how the kalmstrom.com
team can help organizations build an efficient system for
a work process. Please
contact us if you
want to discuss a change within your own organization. You
don’t need to know the solution to your problem – that is
our job! Just tell us what you are discontent with, and
we will find a better process for you.
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