Dear fellow SharePoint developers and administrators!
I am pleased to announce the "SharePoint Farm Browser for MOSS 2007" (you're going to love it) :)
I am pleased to announce the "SharePoint Farm Browser for MOSS 2007" (you're going to love it) :)
I have been working with SharePoint for nearly 10 years, I actually started with the 2001 version back in the days...
Since then all my jobs have been around SharePoint and there is a tool that is SOOOOO needed in the MOSS world: an easy, quick and efficient way to view the ENTIRE SharePoint farm structure and some high level usage data.
Until today, only certain 3rd party tools could do that such as AvePoint Discovery tool and also credits to a few SharePoint bloggers for some code snippets that loop through Web Applications, Site Collections, Webs and SubWebs... but nothing was really doing the job properly FOR FREE!
The SharePoint Farm Browser is trying to tie everything together in one very simple "one form" win app.
The beauty of it is that it is a multi-threaded application and allows a SharePoint farm admin to view where the UI is at as it is traversing the SharePoint structure.
When the tool is finished you can produce 2 types of reports.
1. An XML file easily opened in IE and showing the farm structure
2. A CSV file showing the complete structure along with some high level usage data
Here is the code and I will put it on CodePlex when their servers are back up!
Hope this helps and saves some of you SharePoint workers some time and money!
Maybe that will help me become an MVP too... ;)
Cheers,
Etienne
