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Administration Administration Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint
 

Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint

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Developer Acceleratio
Supports SharePoint 2010 • Foundation 2010 • MOSS 2007 • WSS v3
Price, US $ 299.00
Licensing Per Farm or Per Consultant
Free Trial Yes
Website http://www.spdockit.com

Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint generates SharePoint farm configuration with just a few mouse clicks, enables you to track changes in the farm settings and compare different farms. It provides professional looking documentation, helps detect system misconfigurations and helps you improve SharePoint farm performance.

Have you ever wanted to generate entire documentation of a SharePoint farm with just a few mouse clicks, or wanted to compare settings of two different SharePoint Farms? Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint is an application designed to help SharePoint admins to automatically generate farm documentation, compare farms and track configuration changes.

Features

  • Generate SharePoint farm documentation
  • Explore configuration settings
  • Document passwords and product keys
  • Compare farms
  • Track farm changes
  • Automatic snapshots
  • Email notifications with configuration changes
  • Preview scheduled tasks

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Fantastic and Fair Priced SharePoint Documentation

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
As any SharePoint professional knows, SharePoint combines ease of use and the ability to change software to suit your business needs and requirements rapidly. That is the positive of SharePoint. The negative is the expectations that come on IT to be equally as nimble. That means keeping on top of the environment, controlling it and maintaining effective change controls.

Enter the importance of good SharePoint documentation

Documentation is critical to the success of maintaining a healthy SharePoint environment. And if you can maintain a baseline (being able to refer to changes over time), all the better.

http://blog.brainlitter.com/2011/10/25/fantastic-and-fair-priced-sharepoint-documentation-tool/

Product Reviews

Pros Save time generating documentation about your SharePoint environment and offers a number of ways to output the information as well as a very slick visual display in the tool itself

Provide baseline capabilities so you can capture trends over time, including having emails sent to you when changes are made (take that tinkering admins who swear they didn’t touch the system!)

Would help with maintaining consistent settings (tracking changes, and comparing them) across your DEV, QA, Testing, Staging and Production Farms (And in small business land, we don’t have the luxury of that, so documentation is even more important)
Cons Initial version reporting uses some icons that give the impression there is a problem when it is simply that a setting isn't set (or needed). I've shared that feedback with the author and imagine they will address that shortly.
Version Reviewed 1.0
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Reviewed by Sean Wallbridge, SharePoi
October 27, 2011
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Works great!

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As a consultant at the end of the SharePoint implementation I must deliver documentation for the farm, the IPs, name of the server, keys, edition, SharePoint specific settings, you name it.

It was a painful and boring c/p job because I needed to search through the SharePoint settings and write everything down in one document. Not to mention if somebody else reconfigured some farm and then documentation wasn't up to date.

Now the documentation is ready in few seconds, and farm differences or changes are detected automatically. I can choose the level of details that will be delivered to the client.
Not to mention if I deploy the farm that is not on the internet and then I am not able to access the farm from the outside and I need to check one setting. I can bring the farm information with myself and load it on my personal PC for later review.

Love the tool. Really makes my life easier.

Product Reviews

Pros Easy to install, good looking and very detailed documentation that application generates, supports consultant licensing for unlimited farms, works on SP2007 and SP2010
Cons Nothing special
Version Reviewed 1.3.6
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Reviewed by Keith
October 25, 2011
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