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Axceler’s SharePoint Administration ToolRSS Feed

Comment on this (0 comments) Oct 30, 2008
David Ferris

SharePoint sites and farms become challenging to administer as they grow. Axceler’s ControlPoint helps. It was launched in January 2008, and the main features are:

  • User and permission management.
  • Site management (setting quotas, ensuring consistent appearance, etc.).
  • Reporting across many sites on permissions and usage (including activity, storage, and content).
  • Identifying problem sites.
  • Performing actions across many sites.

So it lets you do things like:

  • Analyze and enforce permissions.
  • Clean up user accounts.
  • Isolate sites that are no longer needed and delete them.
  • Determine who is accessing which documents.
  • Find sites with the most or least activity.
  • Find sites with the most or least storage.
  • Anticipate growth by monitoring sites or storage.
  • Monitor activity trends.

Pricing is $5,000 to $10,000 for server software, plus a per-user charge typically in the $0.50 to $1 range; plus maintenance.

SharePoint has had tremendous success. A series of third-party vendors, such as Axceler, are spotting opportunities to add value. Expect SharePoint to end up with a rich third-party vendor community, in much the same way as Exchange and Notes/Domino have.

… David Ferris

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