After couple of days, SharePoint 2010 will be offcially release. Enterprenour crossed their fingers and now they are looking for the day. I’m pretty much sure, people already started thinking on the new plan- about their strategy of using SharePoint 2010 – will it be a stable one – when Microsoft will released their service pack – what will be the migration plan – what’s the adtional benifits/productivity can organization gain using SP 2010.
Good news is that after CTP and beta realease of SharePoint 2010, many tools had been published by different communities and sponsors like AVEPOINT, MetaLogix etc. In tis post, I’m trying to place few ofd the SharePoint 2010 tools anlog with little bit of details.
Categorically broadly divided into two sections, one is Freely Available, and the second one is Paid Service.
Freely Avialable
SharePoint Manager 2010 – It 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. It is free and can only be used with SP2010. Url – http://spm.codeplex.com/
SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard 2.8 – This tool can be used for content deployment purpose in Sharepoint 2010 environment. content can be published at site collections level, webs, lists, folders,and list items (including files). Url – http://spdeploymentwizard.codeplex.com/releases/view/42380
Starter Master Pages for SharePoint 2010 by Randy Drisgill - This is a clean, commented starting point for creating your own SharePoint 2010 branding. Starter Master Pages were known previously as Minimal Master Pages in SharePoint 2007. Good to go as initial start. URL – http://startermasterpages.codeplex.com/
Site Directory for SharePoint 2010 -There are three main components to the solution, they are:
Site Listings List: A basic SharePoint list which stores an entry for each site that is picked up by the Scan Job.
Scan Job: A timer job which scans Web Applications for sites and updates or adds to the Site Listings list. Supports exclusions, three different ways of identifying Site Owners and can be configured for multiple Web Applications, each with their own schedule.
Delete Broken Listings Job: A timer job which checks each Site Listing to see if it exists. If it does not then it keeps a count of how many times it was missing and then removes the listing once a configurable number of missed scans is reached. URL - http://spsitedirectory2010.codeplex.com/ Read more…