SharePoint IT Governance Tools

Working with Microsoft IT and the product marketing team together we've put together this codeplex workspace to provide small sample governance tools that will help in the management and control aspects of WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server Deployments. Be sure to check out the Governance Page on TechNet. As a result of GotDotNet going away, we've republished a few of the SPS 2003/WSS 2.0 tools as well.

 

WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Tools

• • Microsoft SAT SharePoint Cross Site Configurator 1.0 - For standardization and consistency of master pages, auditing, content types and more. What else do you want to use it for?

• • Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture 1.0 - Simply captures sites that are deleted by end users and backs them up to disk using the event model. You have a recycle bin, but this is basically a site recycle bin (available only to administrators). (Works with WSS 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• • MS IT Site Life Cycle Management 1.0 - Notify, Backup then Delete Unused Unneeded sites (Works with WSS 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• • MS IT Usage Reporting Framework 2.0 - Simple reporting framework to gather usage and storage metrics on WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007 and works with multiple farms. Note the caveats with SQL read queries listed on the framework homepage (direct select statements against the database).

• • MS IT Toolbox - The SharePoint Toolbox is a set of MS IT tools starting with the copy timer for analyzing latency and it's impact on SharePoint uploads and downloads. Be sure to check this workspace for other tools.

• • TweakSP Central Admin Extensions TweakSP is a solution that extends SharePoint's Central Administration providing additional functionality. Examples content database storage size, hierarchy, and log viewer.

 

A useful collection of utilities for managing your SharePoint Services infrastructure and managing some of those sites that aren't being used.