Site Administrator for SharePoint

Understand, Manage and Secure Your sharepoint Environment

SharePoint is now the standard for collaboration in enterprises across the globe, especially those who have already deployed other Microsoft IT platforms, such as SQL Server, Exchange or Windows Server. While Microsoft provides a number of tools to manage sharepoint, they don’t provide a comprehensive set of tools to manage enterprise-wide sharepoint environments. IT professionals who manage sharepoint need to know the location of sharepoint sites, how they are used and how often, who is accessing them and how they are affecting the overall IT environment.

SharePoint security and compliance is another major concern for administrators, as auditing this platform is critical to maintain internal security controls and meet external auditing regulation requirements.

Quest® Site Administrator for sharepoint helps you understand, manage and secure your entire sharepoint environment and gives you much-needed visibility into all your sharepoint servers. It provides powerful auto discovery of sharepoint servers and sites, operational reporting of critical sharepoint information, enterprise-wide policy and permissions management and access to audit data and reports. Managing your environment has never been easier!

Robust Reporting—Make Informed Decisions

Understanding the scope of your sharepoint environment helps you identify current issues to better prepare you for the growth of tomorrow. Avoid the challenges associated with inadequate network performance, insufficient storage space, inappropriate security permissions and support. Site Administrator includes the Information Portal, a Web dashboard that presents enterprise-level information on your sharepoint environment. From the Information Portal, you can drill down to the site collection or site level to get basic information about sharepoint usage, as well as view a permissions report. The Information Portal recognizes the sharepoint security model and automatically shows security-trimmed reports to site collection administrators. This saves administrators time because they don’t have to generate site-specific reports; it also provides business users with access to data that can help them make informed decisions about their project and team sites.

Using the centralized Microsoft Management Console (MMC), you can access over 30 out-of-the-box operational reports, as well as create custom ones, that detail critical sharepoint information. Using Site Administrator and SQL Server, you can publish scheduled reports to a designated sharepoint site or save them as an Excel file or PDF for simplified distribution to stakeholders.

Simplified Permissions Management — Manage Security

Move beyond the limitations of native tools and manage sharepoint security from Site Administrator’s intuitive interface. The Security Explorer feature provides powerful search for effective user access permissions on sharepoint servers, and displays Active Directory and sharepoint group membership and permission inheritance as well. You can quickly take action based on the search results: the same centralized console allows you to add and revoke permissions, edit sharepoint group membership and permissions levels and restore or break permission inheritance. It also allows you to copy permissions from one user to another or clone permissions across different sharepoint sites. Security Explorer also provides scheduled backups and instant recovery of sharepoint permissions to restore security and maintain compliance. Finally, Security Explorer helps to maintain user lists and access control lists by cleaning up deleted Active Directory accounts from sharepoint.

Centralized Auditing — Maintain Compliance

The Security Auditor feature in Site Administrator allows you to track activity in your sharepoint environment by providing comprehensive auditing using a specialized event log. From this log, reports tell you the “who, what, when and where” of changes to sharepoint configuration, documents, lists and sites. These reports help ensure compliance with internal IT security standards, external regulations and Microsoft licensing.

Automated Server and Site Policy Management — Enforce Corporate Standards

Improve sharepoint management and increase efficiency by automatically implementing and enforcing global server and site policies across your environment. Site Administrator’s policy management feature allows you to configure your entire sharepoint environment in a matter of minutes or, if you choose, configure a single server or site policy with ease. You can quickly set site content alerts, storage quotas and locks, users and permissions, content creation rules, self-service site creation and much more.

Discovery and Built-in Shortcuts — Understand and Access Your Environment

The powerful discovery wizard within Site Administrator enables you to quickly understand your sharepoint environment by identifying all servers and sites across your network. The easy-to-use wizard provides at-a-glance discovery results, including the total number of sharepoint servers and sites that exist.

Native management tools in sharepoint are cumbersome and time consuming to access. Using the navigation tree, Site Administrator provides simplified access to sharepoint server and site management pages.