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ControlPoint 8.7 - User Guide

Preface Getting Started with ControlPoint Using Discovery to Collect Information for the ControlPoint Database Cache Searching for SharePoint Sites Managing SharePoint Objects Using ControlPoint Policies to Control Your SharePoint Environment Managing SharePoint User Permissions Data Analysis and Reporting
Specifying Parameters for Your Analysis Analysis Results Display Generating a SharePoint Summary Report Analyzing Activity Analyzing Object Properties Analyzing Storage Analyzing Content Generating a SharePoint Hierarchy Report Analyzing Trends Auditing Activities and Changes in Your SharePoint Environment Analyzing SharePoint Alerts Analyzing ControlPoint Policies Analyzing Users and Permissions The ControlPoint Task Audit Viewing Logged Errors
Scheduling a ControlPoint Operation Saving, Modifying and Running Instructions for a ControlPoint Operation Using the ControlPoint Governance Policy Manager Using Sensitive Content Manager to Analyze SharePoint Content for Compliance Using ControlPoint Sentinel to Detect Anomalous Activity Provisioning SharePoint Site Collections and Sites Default Menu Options for ControlPoint Users About Us

SharePoint Summary Dashboard

The SharePoint Summary dashboard, which is available—and displays as the home page—for ControlPoint for SharePoint Standard installations, contains the following information:

Interface

·statistical information about your SharePoint farm

NOTE: This information is updated daily, when the ControlPoint application pool is restarted, typically after the ControlPoint Scheduler timer job has run.  If the Scheduler timer job is disabled, data retrieval begins when the first request is made to ControlPoint.

Statistical information comes from the following sources.

Data

Source

SharePoint Summary

If Discovery has been run, the data is taken from the ControlPoint Service (xcAdmin) database; if Discovery has not been run, the data is taken directly from SharePoint.

Site Collections Created in the Last 30 Days

The data is taken from SharePoint Search engine.

NOTE:  If for some reason Search engine is not configured to provide the data, the chart will not display.

Top Site Collections by Size

The data is taken from SharePoint. ControlPoint security trimming

·quick links to some of ControlPoint's most powerful functionality:

§the Governance Policy Manager, which allows you to define standard governance polices or best practices, then apply them to one or more site collections

§the Orphaned Domain User analysis, which identifies users who currently have permissions in SharePoint but are no longer valid in the Active Directory

§The Most/Least report, which identifies SharePoint objects that have the most or least activity, use the most or least storage, or have the most or least amount of content.

§the Permissions Management tool, which lets you perform a variety of ControlPoint permissions actions and analyses within a self-contained interface (details of which can be found in the ControlPoint Permissions Management for Site Admins Guide)

·links to Quest Support as well as ControlPoint user documentation on the Quest website.

If a ControlPoint operation is launched from the dashboard, you must select the object(s) on which to perform the operation using the Change Selection option.

To access the SharePoint Summary dashboard:

As well as being the default home page, you can invoke the SharePoint Summary dashboard from the SharePoint Hierarchy farm node, by choosing Farm Summary Dashboard.

Farm Summary Dashboard

NOTE:  This option is not available for ControlPoint Non-Standard installations.

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