Understand, Manage and Secure Your SharePoint Environment IT professionals who manage SharePoint need to know the location of SharePoint sites, how they are used and how often, who is accessing them and how they are affecting the overall IT environment. In addition, SharePoint security and compliance is a major concern for many administrators, especially in industries with strict compliance regulations, such as healthcare, financial, and government. Unorganized permission assignments and a lack of central enforcement of security policies has left many organizations at risk. Plus, because it’s nearly impossible to track changes within SharePoint with native tools, additional security and compliance concerns can arise. As more organizations continue to use SharePoint for content management and collaboration, auditing this platform will become even more critical in order to maintain internal security controls and meet external auditing regulation requirements.
Quest® Site Administrator for SharePoint helps you understand and manage your entire SharePoint environment and gives you much-needed visibility into all SharePoint servers, site collections and sites. This intuitive solution provides powerful auto discovery of SharePoint servers and sites, robust reporting of critical SharePoint information, enterprise-wide policy and permissions management and access to audit data and reports. Managing your environment has never been easier!
Understand Your Environment — Gain Visibility and Centralized Access The powerful discovery wizard within Site Administrator enables you to quickly understand your SharePoint environment by identifying all servers and sites across your network. The easy-to-use wizard provides at-a-glance discovery results, including the total number of SharePoint servers and sites that exist. Using the navigation tree, discovered sites and content can be displayed, allowing you to quickly and easily browse through all of your SharePoint instances. Searching through the discovered content provides IT with insightful information about the SharePoint deployments within the enterprise. Site Administrator also simplifies access to native SharePoint server and site management pages through built-in shortcuts..
Automated Server and Site Policy Management — Enforce Corporate Standards Improve SharePoint management and increase efficiency by automatically implementing global server and site policies across your environment. With Site Administrator, you have the flexibility to easily create, edit, and copy server and site policy settings across your network. This automated policy management allows you to configure your enterprise of SharePoint servers and sites in a matter of minutes or, if you choose, configure a single server or site with ease. You can now quickly set site content alerts, storage quotas and locks, users and permissions, content creation rules, self-service site creation and much more, across your entire network with a simple click of the mouse.
Simplified Permissions Management — Manage Security Move beyond the limitations of native tools and manage SharePoint security from Site Administrator’s intuitive interface. The new Security Explorer feature allows you to search for and modify security on SharePoint servers, including group membership and permission levels management. It also allows you to clone permissions from one user to another. This feature also provides instant recovery of SharePoint permissions to restore security and maintain compliance.
Centralized Auditing — Maintain Compliance The Security Auditor feature in Site Administrator allows you to track the activity in your SharePoint environment by providing comprehensive auditing using a specialized event log. The information is stored in an easy-to-understand format containing SharePoint configuration and security events, as well as any operations that involved SharePoint documents. The application provides multiple reports on all audited data to ensure compliance with internal IT security standards and external regulations.
Robust Reporting — Make Informed Decisions Understanding the scope of your SharePoint environment helps you identify current issues to better prepare you for the growth of tomorrow. Avoid the challenges associated with inadequate network performance, insufficient storage space, inappropriate security permissions and support. With Site Administrator, you have the ability to create custom reports based on the data gathered by the tool as well as over 30 out-of-the-box reports that provide critical information on your SharePoint installations.
Granular SharePoint Recovery from Existing Backups Enterprise backup and restore for SharePoint is cumbersome for administrators. They must use multiple backup techniques due to limited software and hardware tools that require large amounts of storage space?and lack options for recovering the data leveling large, distributed environments. Finding a solution that fits an organization’s SharePoint backup requirements is essential for cost-efficiency and productivity.Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint is an enterprise-level solution that provides granular recovery of data for SharePoint 2003 and 2007. It restores items from full database backups created for disaster recovery,whether they be SQL Server or SharePoint native backups.
Simplify Backup and Recovery – as well as Administration Recovery Manager allows you to centrally manage backed-up SharePoint data with ease. Content database backups on the SharePoint servers are automatically discovered using the integrated Quest Management Console for SharePoint. The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) -based user interface makes recovery easy – from single-item recovery to the restoration of site collections or entire sites. In addition, search and recovery functions are available as PowerShell cmdlets. This integrates Recovery Manager into the existing infrastructure?and processes for greater flexibility and customization.Recovery Manager can locate and use backup files created natively in SharePoint, through built-in SQL?maintenance, or via Quest LiteSpeed for SQL Server, Microsoft DPM or IBM TSM. It uses SQL system tables to discover backups, regardless of which product made them, thereby providing a highly flexible content recovery solution.
Increase Recovery Options – and Reliability Recovery Manager provides granularity for the restore operation; anything in the backup of the database content —individual documents, lists, document libraries, sites, workspaces—can be restored separately.Because Recovery Manager works with backups of SQL databases, all information stored in the databases,including alerts, permissions, metadata and custom views, can be restored. Organizations become more efficient with flexible restore options resulting in decreased downtime for end users.
To protect you when a disaster recovery becomes necessary, Recovery Manager for SharePoint includes a Disaster Recovery Advisor, a component which guides the SharePoint administrator through the process of complete farm restoration. The DR Advisor analyzes the existing backups of the SharePoint configuration database, creates a detailed checklist of actions required to return the SharePoint farm back to operational state and verifies each components’ availability in real time. This allows you to quickly determine what has already been done and what needs to be done to get your SharePoint farm back up and running.
Retrieve Data Anytime – and Restore Anywhere With Recovery Manager, any recovered content can be restored to any SharePoint instance or saved to a file system. Recovery Manager allows you to quickly browse backup content and retrieve only the documents?you need, even when the original SharePoint site is no longer available. This means you can get businesscritical data back online before the entire server farm is back up and running.
Reduce Recovery Time – and Administration Workload Recovery Manager’s Search Center allows you to look for the data you need across all SharePoint backups previously analyzed in Recovery Manager. For more precise results, you can limit the search scope to backups?made during a certain time period or to backups of a particular application. For any given backup, Recovery Manager also allows you to filter out documents or items that were deleted or modified since the last backup. Once you locate the data, you can open files directly from the backup, save it to a file system, or restore it to the original SharePoint site, or to a different one.In addition, the “Search in Recycle Bin” option allows you to search for specific items simultaneously across multiple backups and inside live SharePoint Recycle Bins. This functionality allows you to use Recovery Manager as your single entry point into a SharePoint recovery and restore the most recent version of any particular item, whether it is located in the backup or the Recycle Bin. Recovery Manager will find specific items even when a user moves a parent container to the Recycle Bin.
Add LiteSpeed for SQL Server – and Add Significant Performance Adding the functionality of LiteSpeed for SQL Server provides Recovery Manager with a significant increase in performance, backup availability and reliability of backup and recovery operations. When saved as aSQL or TSM backup, the recovery backup is accelerated, compressed and encrypted. Whether recovering an individual file or an entire database, Quest’s tools minimize the time required for recovery and deliver consistent results.
LiteSpeed is not required to run Recovery Manager for SharePoint. Integrated Solution – and Centralized SharePoint Management By extending the functionality of Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint and Quest LiteSpeed for SQL Server,you can benefit from the flexible backup options and quick recovery time for SharePoint content databases. Site Administrator provides ongoing, in-depth reporting and global policy settings for an enterprise-wide SharePoint environment. SharePoint quickly becomes a viable, secure collaboration platform for your organization – scalable for your needs in the future.
Integrated Solution – and Centralized SharePoint Management By extending the functionality of Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint and Quest LiteSpeed for SQL Server,you can benefit from the flexible backup options and quick recovery time for SharePoint content databases. Site Administrator provides ongoing, in-depth reporting and global policy settings for an enterprise-wide SharePoint environment. SharePoint quickly becomes a viable, secure collaboration platform for your organization – scalable for your needs in the future.
The Essential SQL Server Backup and Recovery Solution
The low impact, high-performance compression technology in LiteSpeed™ for SQL Server enables you to reduce storage costs, SQL backup and recovery windows. It also gives you complete control over your backup and recovery process.
LiteSpeed’s backup engine compresses data up to 95 percent, in less than half the time required by other backup solutions. It speeds up restore times by recovering individual database objects and encapsulating complete database restores into a single file.
This powerful solution also offers you an easy-to-use interface, scripting backup and recovery commands via T-SQL, or a fully functional command line executable. Plus, LiteSpeed allows for enterprise-wide installation and upgrades through its remote installation capability.
LiteSpeed for SQL Server comes in four editions. You can choose the edition that best suits your environment:
LiteSpeed for SQL Server Enterprise (full-featured version) includes all of LiteSpeed’s award-winning compression and encryption technology as well as all of the advanced features.
LiteSpeed for SQL Server includes all of LiteSpeed’s standard features such as integrated log shipping and double-click restore. You can also attach files to your backup to document your archives. This version also contains the command line interface so you can use this functionality and query scripting capabilities for integration with an existing enterprise backup solution.
LiteSpeed for SQL Server Express offers the same feature set as the standard version of LiteSpeed and is limited to databases up to 10 GB.
LiteSpeed for SQL Server Developer Edition provides fast backup and recovery for Microsoft SQL Server Desktop and Developer Editions. This version includes all of the standard LiteSpeed features.
