ControlPoint 8.10 - User Guide

Deleting ControlPoint Policies

From the Manage ControlPoint Policies page you can delete one or more ControlPoint policies.  

NOTE:  If you delete a policy, it will no longer be included in the ControlPoint Policies Report.  You can, alternatively, deactivate a policy—which would also give you the option of reactivating it at a later time—via the Update ControlPoint Policy page.

To delete one or more selected ControlPoint policies:

1In the ControlPoint Policies table, check the Selected box for each policy you want to delete.  

If you want to delete all policies, click Select All.  (Note that, if the ControlPoint Policies table contains more than one page, policies on all pages will  be selected).

2Click [Delete selected policies].

Re-Registering a New Site Collection for a Policy

Whenever you add a Web application or site collection to the scope covered by a policy, you must "re-register" the policy so that the new objects will be assigned to the SharePoint event handlers that watch for the actions covered by the policy.  

You can either:

·re-register one or more policies in real time (for example, as soon as a new site collection or subsite is added)

OR

·schedule the re-registration of all policies to run either one time or on a regular basis (such as nightly) to ensure that new site collections/subsites will always be added to policies.

To Re-register Selected Policies:

Use the information in the following table to determine the appropriate action to take.

*CAUTION: Depending on the number and scope of the policies you are re-registering, the process may be time- and resource-intensive.  

Data Analysis and Reporting

ControlPoint offers several advanced tools for analyzing data in the SharePoint environment, including:

·a summary of components and statistics at different levels of the SharePoint Hierarchy

·activity throughout the SharePoint farm

·storage used by various SharePoint objects

·site content

·information about users, including:

§permissions for Web applications, site collections, sites, and pages, and

§"orphaned" users, which are users who have permissions within SharePoint but are no longer listed in the Active Directory

·trends over a specified time period

·the contents of SharePoint audit and change logs.

An additional tool, the ControlPoint Task Audit, enable you to review ControlPoint actions taken by administrators.

Analysis tools are accessible for various levels of the hierarchy. As with other ControlPoint features, the scope of the analysis is determined by the hierarchical context.

Most analyses can also be configured so that they can be invoked directly from a url, which can be bookmarked, emailed, or placed on a SharePoint site.

NOTE:  This chapter describes all of the ControlPoint analysis tools.  Depending on the configuration of your ControlPoint menus, however, the analysis tools to which you have access, and their location in the menus invoked from the left navigation pane, may vary.

You can also create dashboards for monitoring key statistics within your farm.

Managing SharePoint User Permissions

ControlPoint includes a variety of value-added actions that facilitate the management of SharePoint users, groups, and permissions:

These actions are accessible from various levels of the hierarchy, enabling you to act on a single site collection or site, multiple site collections, sites, and/or lists within a Web application, or across the entire farm.  

EXCEPTION:  You cannot use these actions to manage user permissions for the SharePoint Central Administration site.

From the ControlPoint left navigation pane, you can also link directly to SharePoint pages for managing users and permissions.