| | SmartTools for SharePoint |
A collection of four tools by Jan Tielens. Three of these are "end user solutions": What's New web part, autocomplete AJAX custom field type for lookups, and Copy/Paste in document libraries. The other, "Enhanced Site Actions", is a feature that adds a number of links to the Site Actions menu, which can be very handy during development (as well as for end users). | 3.0 | Yes | Free | | | |
| | SharePoint Sushi |
Multi-tool application with a simple (though buggy) user interface. Tools included:
Copy View: Copy a view from one SharePoint list to another.
Security Report: View all sites and lists a user has access to.
Import Documents: Upload entire file structures from a file share into a document library.
Meta Data: Get detailed information about metadata in a list. Move metadata from one column to another for all items in
Backup: Backup multiple sites with validation and scheduling capability.
Restore: Restore a single site from backup.
Profile Images Import: Upload profile images from a folder and apply them to User Profiles.
Delete Old Documents: Delete documents older than a given date. Can also be used to copy all files and folders of a document library to a file share.
Bulk Site Creation: Create a large number of subsites based on a site template.
Bulk Lists Creation: Create a large number of lists based on a site template.
Bulk Webpart Customization: If you have lots of sites with the same webpart(s) and want to make changes to all of them, this tool can help you customize all the webparts at once.
Themes: Apply a Theme to many sites at once.
Email Test: Send a test email to make sure outbound email is set up correctly.
Custom 404 Page: Apply a custom 404 page to a site.
Includes online help provided by the CodePlex Wiki. | 2.24 | Yes | Free | | | |
| | SharePoint Spy |
Excellent free (with registration) tool for inspecting the properties of various objects across your SharePoint farm. Consists of a tree view on the left, with a properties window on the right (similar to Visual Studio). Nodes in the tree view include: Sites, Features, Content Types, Field Definitions, All Fields, Workflow Templates, Lists (Content Types, All Fields, Views, Schema XML and Forms), Galleries, and Fields XML. The properties window also shows hidden fields. A particularly useful context option is "compare item with..." which allows side-by-side comparison of properties of two objects. | 2.2.0.0 | No | Free | | | |
| | Imtech Test Content Generator | This tool generates a specified number of Pages from a given Page Layout, along with default fields and version states (Checked In, Published, Approved). Particularly useful when testing navigation elements or roll-ups of pages. | 1.3.0.0 | No | Free | | | |
| | Imtech SharePoint Developer Bookmarklets |
A small set of useful "bookmarklets" that are added to your Favourites menu as normal but then use Javascript to redirect to common SharePoint pages (e.g. Site Settings) within the active SharePoint site. | July 4, 2008 | Yes | Free | | | |
| | Gary LaPointe's STSADM Custom Extensions | Over 100 custom STSADM extensions, some simple/trivial, some incredibly powerfule. Examples include gl-movesite, gl-exportsitecolumns, gl-exportlistfield, and gl-replacefieldvalues. Installs easily via a solution package. | July 4, 2008 | No | Free | | | |
| | AC's WCM Custom Commands for STSADM.EXE | Includes three particularly useful and self-explanatory STSADM commands: PublishAllItems, GenSiteColumnsXml, and GenContentTypexXml. | July 4, 2008 | No | Free | | | |
| | AC's VS SharePoint Project Utility Tool Window | Built on top of DXCore, this tool window provides two basic but very useful functions:
SharePoint 12 Folders: select from a list of popular 12-hive folders for them to be automatically added to your VS solution.
WSP Packaging: inspects your 12 hive structure then automatically generates a manifest and DDF file based on conventions. | 0.8 | Yes | Free | | | |
| | SharePoint Manager |
Very similar tool to SharePoint Spy that allows browsing (and modifying) of various properties across your farm. Has many useful tree nodes that SharePoint Spy does not have, including Solutions, Services, Servers, Job Definitions and Running Jobs. Also features a useful list data viewer, and context-menu actions such as feature activate/de-activate.
Unfortunately, SPM is missing a few tree nodes that would make it a "total solution" for property browsing, including Workflow Templates, Field Definitions and Event Receivers. | 0.32.8.0218 | Yes | Free | | 18/02/2008 | |
| | SharePoint Logging Spy |
Sharepoint Logging Spy is a real time diagnostic application for MOSS 2007 that allows a SharePoint administrator to view (and save to disk) the ULS Log & Event Log entries from multiple machines in a farm through a single console.
Also includes a SharePoint Manager-esque property explorer with many useful nodes, and parsers for existing ULS and usage logs. | RC1 | Yes | Free | | 31/03/2008 | |
| | Pencil |
This tool allows you to rapidly create interface mockups for applications/sites - Windows, Web or otherwise. Can run as a Firefox plugin or standalone. | | No | Free | | | Interface Design |
| | WSS Query Web Service Test Tool | A simple test tool for the query web service in WSS that allows you to generate the XML for the query, post it, and see the results. | | No | Free | | | SharePoint |
| | MOSS Query Web Service Test Tool | A simple test tool for the query web service in MOSS that allows you to generate the XML for the query, post it, and see the results. | | No | Free | | | SharePoint |
| | SysInternals Suite | Includes ZoomIt for presentations. | | No | Free | | 16/07/2008 | General .NET |
| | stsadmWin 2007 | Useful utility window for executing STSADM commands. Extensible command set. | | No | Free | | | SharePoint |
| | SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit | Other than the standard SDK library and useful samples, this also includes the Microsoft BDC Definition Editor, and ECM Starter Kit. | 1.3 | No | Free | | 26/02/2008 | SharePoint |
| | zevenseas SharePoint Search Coder | Combines a class library for generating search queries in a more readable fashion along with a Windows application for generating and testing search queries. | 0.91 | Yes | Free | | 4/06/2008 | SharePoint |
| | SharePoint Search Service Tool | The SharePoint Search Service Tool is a rich web service client that allows a developer to explore the scopes and managed properties of a given SharePoint Search SSP, build queries in either Keyword or SQL Syntax, submit those queries and examine the raw web service results. This tool can be useful in troubleshooting and verifying the behavior and configuration of a SharePoint environment.
| 1.1 | Yes | Free | | 26/06/2008 | SharePoint |
| | SharePoint Administration Toolkit | | | No | Free | | | SharePoint |
| | WSPBuilder | | 0.9.8.0408 | Yes | Free | | 23/07/2008 | SharePoint |
| | Microsoft SharedView | Pete said: "You can share your whole desktop or just a single window with as many users as you like. You can grant control to any of those users and chat with them online. Users connect via HTTP over port 80 and are authenticated with a Live login so it's pretty safe." | | Yes | Free | | 4/08/2008 | System Utilities |
| | Mindscape VS File Explorer | Free file explorer extension for Visual Studio. | | No | Free | | 18/08/2008 | General .NET |
| | BareTail | Useful for processing logs. | | Yes | Free | | 28/10/2008 | SharePoint |