Hi everyone,
We are in the process of reviewing tools to assist with management of oour SharePoint environments.We are looking at a tool that can assist with the day-to-day management of the farm, sites, and content. What we also need is reporting on user access, implement setting accross sites/libraries (e.g. versioning etc.).
We have a relatively small farm, and let’s assume finances is not an issue. We also need good support, since we do not have the appetite or the resources to struggle with a 3rd party app when things goes pear-shaped.
We’ve had demo’s by both these parties, but I’d like to hear from “the people on the ground” 🙂
Sales people tell you all the nice tales, which is right, but I need an objective (well, as far as possible) view from the community. Your assistance and comments would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
BTW, I wanted to address the specific issues that Ken brought up…
Want to refresh content from Prod to Test to Dev? Only Doc Ave Does it all.
Change Manager! Newest addition to ControlPoint
Want to move content around, backup the destination before the action; Only DocAve Does.
Change Manager again, they just don’t touch the source.
You have Managed Meta Data to transfer around?
Change Manager does this.
The area where I’m still yet to test / score is User Permission Administration.
ControlPoint is very powerful here, their solutions Engineers will cover this on a demo call, but I believe this was one of the very first features that they instituted and it works great!
We have Axceller and I have to bring down the whole farm whenever we have to do an upgrade.
It’s an IIS reset, not a reboot. Your environment will be unavailable for less than 10 seconds.
Axceler’s ControlPoint has to do a discovery of the content, which can impact performance.
This is scheduled overnight. And isn’t actually necessary.
