Document is not updated after check in from Word - sharepoint

one of our customers has great problems checking in documents to a SharePoint library form Word 2007. Whenever she check's in a document to the library the meta data as version number and checkin comment are updated but not the document itself.
The library is configured in such a way that versioning is activated and documents have to be checked out before editing.
I think it has to do with some Office 2007 or OS settings as every other of her colleges can check in documents without any problems.

I recently ran into a similar issue. The document may be getting uploaded but some sort of caching or proxy issue is causing an older version to appear when you try to download it.
To isolate the issue I suggest you try uploading a text file a couple of times.
Not sure if you'll have access to the component that is actually causing the problem, but as a workaround renaming the file should help.

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Microsoft Syntex not triggering after power automate saved documents into a library

I am using Microsoft Syntex Content understanding on a specific Document library in Sharepoint (M365).When files are dragged into the library manually, content processing starts as expected and delivers results.
When files are added to the library with a power automate flow, the content processing does not start (not until some other files are added manually again).
Any ideas if this is a config issue?
I tried waiting (files had not been processed on the next day), checked licensing and permissions. The issue stayed, content understanding starts only when triggered by manual file upload.
We opened a case with MS Support and it started working a few days later. Case closed by Engineer without further explanation.
From our side we made sure we had the correct licensing in place, eliminated all complexity from power automate so that only plain pdfs landed in the syntex library.

Reading data from shared teams text file using VBA in Excel

I have created a tool using VBA that performs several pulls from BigQuery and does a variety of transformations and summarization inside of Excel. The tool is an evolving tool and to make sure that the users are using the most current version of the tool, I would like to have a version file saved on the shared Teams page that the tool would check and if needed, download the newest version onto the tool to the user's folder. I have scrubbed the web for several solutions to this ask but not one that actually works. Below are the links to the solutions I have attempted. The issue is that the connectors for opening text files seem to not work with a URL from Teams. I need to know how to make this work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
https://www.excel-easy.com/vba/examples/read-data-from-text-file.html
This solution doesn't seem to work with a URL as I get a Bad Filename error.
https://chandoo.org/forum/threads/download-file-from-sharepoint-and-save-it-in-system-folder.41779/
Problem with this one is that the download for some reason shows completed but actually never moves local.
Connecting to Excel file stored on SharePoint via ADODB
https://www.connectionstrings.com/textfile/
I attempted to use this solution using the text file connection string but was not successful here either.
https://www.exceltip.com/import-and-export-in-vba/import-data-from-a-text-file-ado-using-vba-in-microsoft-excel.html
Again, another bad name error.
Any help or advice on how to connect to a simple text file shared in a Teams folder would be greatly appreciated.

Sharepoint to replace a fileshare

Is Sharepoint my best option to replace an aging network of fileshares? There's approx 1TB of data residing among 3 fileshares (1 DFS, 2 NAS boxes). A document management system is in place for new things - the file shares are now just read-only archives/legacy. Our users would simply need to be able to search for and open the documents.
Users are finding it difficult to locate their documents in the file shares and windows search does not often help. Sharepoint was suggested as something which would play nicely with Office documents (99% of the content) and have a good search facility.
Not being a Sharepoint Developer or having had any training on it, I'm getting a little lost. I have set up a test server to try it out using SP2013. I have managed to index each of my file shares and have created a search page. However, results aren't consistent with the indexted items. I assume I need to somehow get the relevant metadata from the files but I have no idea how to go about this.
Could anyone suggest some resources for help on this subject (my searches have mainly turned up paid-for Sharepoint addons or outdated blogs) and any experience of doing something similar? Also happy for any suggestions on ways to achieve this using other software/platforms.
I went with Microsoft Search Server 2010 in the end.
Sharepoint is basically optimized to be a document manager. I think you don't need to buy or donwload addons.
For your problem, metadata are the key! You need to properly specify the metadata.
I give you the theory of a plan document management in SharePoint 2013 :
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263266.aspx
A nice introduction to metadata :
http://fr.slideshare.net/gzelfond/document-management-in-sharepoint-without-folders-introduction-to-metadata
Be careful to use the Microsoft documentation for the beginning. From my experience, its difficult to start with this documentation because you have several things in it. There is also good books/ebooks that you can find easily to start well, and probably more simplified than MS documentation.

Document Mng on Redmine: Anyone use DMSF plugin or find an easy way to manage docs in the Files tab with a 'wiki' as a front end?

I'm looking to use Redmine for document management. I know that Redmine is not ideal for this task but there is already a lot of content on the site so I'd like to utilize it if possible.
Redmine currently does not a have great documents module. The files we've uploaded look to be amended on that specific page and it doesn't seem to be able to move to another page (unless you download and re-upload to the proper page).
Idea 1
I see there is a Files section, which could work as a central repository (and you can upload document based on release) however, is there a way to set up a nice-looking 'front-end' page that automatically updates based on new submissions to the Files tab? I envision this front end to be a simple wiki page with the document name, a short description and a links to the file posted in the Files tab.
There are so many documents uploaded to varying pages on the Redmine site. I would only do the whole download and re-upload of files if there was a way to automatically update the 'front end' wiki.
Idea 2
I see there is a DMSF plugin for Redmine. Has anyone used this before and has is solved document management issues? I'd like to hear your feedback. Even if DMSF doesn't totally solve my issue, anything is better than what I have now.
Thanks!
In my opinion DMSF module is a perfect companion for Redmine. We have adopted it in our company. You can easily deal with document versions, webdav access, custom approval workflow, document modifications notification with the extra value of being well integrated with Redmine features (roles, dynamic links in Wiki and issue text and notes).

Edit attachment in web client

Document with attachments is opened in XPage. I want to edit attachment in associated program (say MS Word or Excel) and save changes back to Notes document.
I am aware of webdav configuration, but it have significant caveats: attachments are no longer stored within related document and security is controlled by ACL and not RN/AN.
How to edit document attachments in web client? Did any of you implemented such feature?
WebDAV is the way to go. There's an implementation that can read/write DominonAttachments. Soon on OpenNTF
Given that it would have to be opened in another program such as word / excel I'm not sure if this is possible, for example if your looking to save edits then you would need to know when someone saves the doc in word /excel etc.
You can attach a file download control to a domino doc field, when you do this it will display all attachments, when in edit mode you can delete these attachments, I think the only way this would work would be to enable them to delete / re upload, which is a fairly common thing to do on most web applications I would think
The tool we use, with recent improvements for XPages, is Swing: http://www.swingsoftware.com/
We checked many others, without success.

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