Tag Archives: Capture Server

Tracking Anonymous Access In SharePoint

I was in a Capture Server design meeting the other day and the discussion turned briefly to the topic of anonymous access[1] to web applications and web services.   The consensus of the conversation was that anything we install should not allow anonymous access by default, but the administrators would obviously set the permissions to whatever they wanted.

Of course if managing access control is pushed to the administrators, do the administrators have an easy way to see where anonymous access is enabled? Thankfully for SharePoint Administrators, Russ Maxwell at MSDN has written a PowerShell script that walks through you Site Collection and reports on which areas have anonymous access.

Extending Capture Server

Many clients engage KnowledgeLake Professional Services for custom solutions. One KnowledgeLake product that is often enhanced via customization is Capture Server.

Capture Server is an enterprise class batch processing solution specifically engineered to manage large volumes of documents into SharePoint. The batches of documents are released into SharePoint via a Process. A Process is a group of one or more Activities and an Activity is derived from a Plug-In (a .NET assembly).

Capture Server comes with many standard Activities including the following.