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!
I’ll go with AvePoint, I do agree it takes time to learn the product but once you have its awesome, make life super easy, but ControlPoint is catching up.
The fist thing is AvePoint expensive and they do offer modules so buy what you need, backup/restore, reporting and Admin the usual suspects I recommend, and if you dive in deep you will find many useful features for admin and makes like easy copy/clone permissions – ofcourse now its in controlpoint but how about metadata? and can you migrate user from different domain ? (its possible with Avepoint with just few clicks).
Health monitoring is awesome in AvePoint, but you need to know how to configure.
I do agree with some comments regarding the training , yes that is where Avepoint should improve, they used to good till V5 but from V6 they screwed. I can just go on, but my recommendation is AvePoint.
