1. HANK FARLOW SENIOR SHAREPOINT CONSULTANT ADVANCED LOGIC INDUSTRIES Roanoke Valley SharePoint User’s Group SharePoint Utility Box Tools To You Help Manage Your Environment

2. Tonight’s Agenda How to enhance and extend SharePoint  End Users  Administrators  Developers Free Tools Licensed Tools

3. SharePoint Inspector SharePoint Inspector Using the SharePoint Inspector you can browse through the SharePoint object model, can see objects composing its structure, get their properties by reflection. This cool can be very useful when you want to check if your code does what it should do. You can use also some advanced features like activate/deactivate SharePoint features, add/remove event receivers, manage your recycle bin. SharePoint Manager SharePoint Manager The SharePoint Manager 2007 is a SharePoint object model explorer. It enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property. It also enables you to change the properties (at your own risk). It is a very powerful tool for developers that like to know what the SharePoint holds of secrets. MS IT Site Delete Capture MS IT Site Delete Capture Every had the unpleasant question of users if you could restore a site or site collection they accidentally deleted? The only way to do this by default is to perform a restore to a separate environment and use stsadm to extract the site and restore into your environment again. Even though SharePoint 2007 does have a recycle bin, this does not capture site or site collection deletions. SharePoint Free Downloads CodePlex (www.codeplex.com)www.codeplex.com

4. SharePoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool SharePoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool The SharePoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool is a capacity planning and performance testing tool that populates data for testing SharePoint deployments. The SharePoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool is available as a command-line executable program that extracts information about how to populate the server from an XML configuration file. SharePoint Logging Spy SharePoint Logging Spy A lot of SharePoint 2007 environments consist of multiple servers. Each server is producing logs and in case of issues you always have to dig through multiple server logs. The SharePoint Logging Spy allows you real time diagnostics of multiple servers in a SharePoint farm using a single console view. SharePoint SUSHI SharePoint SUSHI SUSHI is a powerful, user-friendly SharePoint application enabling you to accomplish common SharePoint administrative and development tasks. You can think of SUSHI as a Swiss army knife for SharePoint. SharePoint Free Downloads CodePlex (www.codeplex.com)www.codeplex.com

5. IderaIdera SharePoint performance monitor is a free tool that enables easy monitoring of critical performance counters for SharePoint, IIS and Windows Operating Systems. Monitors SharePoint performance in real-time Easy to read graphical console Sends email alerts when issues arise Runs in your system tray SharePoint Tools for Monitoring

6. SharePointBoost End User Viewer Tool The SharePointBoost End-User Viewer Tool is a free tool that displays the total number of end-users in a SharePoint Site Collection or Farm and gives the administrator the ability to delete invalid/inactive user accounts.

7. SharePoint Analyzer from Bamboo SolutionsSharePoint Analyzer from Bamboo Solutions provides rich, good, structured overview of your SharePoint farm from administrator/infrastructure perspective – detailed info about servers, web applications, logs, and etc. Good usability, grouping and detailed information across all your farm servers, but there is also useful info for developers.

9. Migration Manager for SharePoint Quest Migration Manager for SharePoint provides a reliable solution to reorganize, deploy, consolidate and migrate SharePoint content. File Migrator for SharePoint Quest File Migrator for SharePoint enables organizations to effectively migrate content in file shares to SharePoint, Novell File Systems to SharePoint and eRoom to SharePoint. Notes Migrator for SharePoint Quest Notes Migrator for SharePoint enables you to migrate Notes applications to SharePoint 2007/2010/SharePoint Online without data loss and with fewer development resources than you thought possible, minimizing project costs, risk and IT burden. Quest Web Parts for SharePoint Quest Web Parts for SharePoint helps you build better SharePoint sites and unlock the full potential of SharePoint. Combine information, enhance views and build applications, menus and dashboards. Simply. Create solutions without code! Recovery Manager for SharePoint Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint is an enterprise-level solution that provides granular recovery of data for SharePoint. It can recover anything in the backup of your SharePoint content database—individual documents, lists, document libraries, sites, workspaces, site collections—and restore it to any SharePoint instance or a file system. Security Explorer Security Explorer is a powerful, graphical solution for real- time management of access controls and security on files and folders, SharePoint, SQL Servers, Exchange and workstations across the enterprise. Server Administrator for SharePoint Gain maximum insight into SharePoint server and farm configuration and customizations to optimize manageability, performance, availability, and security with Quest Server Administrator for SharePoint. Site Administrator for SharePoint 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. Utilize over 30 operational reports, build custom reports, set global policy settings, manage permissions and provide audit data and reports to help you proactively manage collaboration and ensure availability, security and compliance. Site Administrator Reports for SharePoint This free, browser-based application collects and displays key information about your SharePoint sites so that you can manage them effectively. Reports includes the size and scope of site collections, types of content and use of storage for current vs. stale and deleted files. Other SharePoint Management and Reporting Tools from Quest

10. 1.SharePoint 2007 SDK - Sasmples, Help, How To Articles, BDC Tool, etc http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550992.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550992.aspx 2.WSS 3.0 SDK - Samples, Help, How To Articles, and more http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms441339.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms441339.aspx 3.Reflector – Every developer who works with.Net should have this. It used to be Lutz, but now the redgate reflector is king of the town. http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/ http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/ 4.SharePoint Manager 2007 - Incredibly useful diagnostic tool and for assistance with planning. http://www.codeplex.com/spm http://www.codeplex.com/spm 5.STSDev - Terrific tool to help in building out small/large projects quickly. http://www.codeplex.com/stsdev http://www.codeplex.com/stsdev 6.Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint The first one would be Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19F21E5E-B715-4F0C-B959- 8C6DCBDC1057&displaylang=en The second one would be Visual Studio 2005 extensions for.NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation) – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023- E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en Z http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023- E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en Developer and Administrative Focused Tools

11. 7.WSPBuilder - Terrific for creating quick WSP files. http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder 8.Solution Installer - Wonderful tool that is a must to help improve deployment management. http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointinstaller http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointinstaller 9.U2U CAML Builder - Windows Client Version is my best friend. Saves so much time. http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=28 http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=28 10.Application Pool Manager – Spence created a terrific tool that sits in your task bar to help speed up recycling and other useful options. http://www.harbar.net/articles/APM.aspx http://www.harbar.net/articles/APM.aspx 11.Registry Hack for “Right Click” Add Solution – Spence also made a great tool that makes it easier to add solutions that I always use. http://www.harbar.net/archive/2007/04/25/Rightclick-a-.WSP-to-Add-Solution.aspx http://www.harbar.net/archive/2007/04/25/Rightclick-a-.WSP-to-Add-Solution.aspx 12.Log Viewer (makes reading through the logs on a dev box MUCH nicer) http://www.codeplex.com/features 13.SharePoint Debugger – This is a really simple one from Ted that quickly (by a feature) allows you to turn the custom errors on and off in the web config. This is something we all do, I just like this for reducing the chance of someone messing up the web config. http://www.tedpattison.net/downloads.aspx Developer and Administrative Focused Tools

12. Here is an index of 12 Free SharePoint add-ons AJAX Control Toolkit Silverlight Control Toolkit Podcasting Kit Community Kit forCommunity Kit for | 30 Features 30 Features Learning Kit Tool Basket Smart Tools Role-Based Templates for My Sites Branding Tool Mobile Colligo Reader

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