It is common for organizations to hire experts or consultants to work along with their employees on certain projects of high importance. For these contract employees, the system admin creates user accounts in AD and grants required privileges to access organization resources. Of course, they are allowed to collaborate with peers using SharePoint Team Site. […]

Vyapin’s SharePoint Farm Reporter has been improved to provide better, quicker, more useful reports both in interactive mode (Quick Reports) and schedule mode (Power Reports). New Features SharePoint Farm Reporter now uses a new usage data processing engine to extract relevant data from IIS logs and display it in the required format under its many […]

A new version of Vyapin’s SharePoint Farm Reporter v4.3 has been released. This version significantly changes the way SharePoint users source various farm level reports for particular time periods as per their requirement. Extended period of reporting covered The benefit of this development can be realized in various reports that have Date Range option. Due […]

A new version of SharePoint Farm Reporter v3.1 with the following enhancements has been released recently. Site Usage Summary: This report displays information about the number of sites, lists, list items, storage used by sites, number of visited users, total hits by users in each site. Figure #1: Site Usage Summary Total in the last […]

Reporting on SharePoint is an important organization-wide requirement based on the different functional aspects of SharePoint governance and administration. A comprehensive SharePoint Reporting should broadly cover the following report categories: SharePoint Audit and Compliance Reports These reports should address the regulatory compliance needs (such as SOX, HIPAA etc.). The reports should carry information about all […]

Vyapin SharePoint Reporting solution’s latest version (SharePoint Farm Reporter) has several new improvements and significant additions to its SharePoint Audit reports. Audit Custom Events Report This SharePoint report displays information about the custom events that occurred in the list items including changes in workflow settings during the recent ‘N’ days or for the given date […]

Managed metadata collection report This report displays information about the term stores defined in the web application for any number of levels. Figure #1: Managed metadata collection – Term store Here, the term set is ‘Country’ and Term level 1 – 6 shows the term level information for the Group ‘Brands’ in Available Service Applications […]

Audit – Group Member Changes In the earlier versions prior to v1.7, tracking the newly added & deleted group members for the specified period were different reports. In v1.7, we have combined the two reports and added a column to indicate the action taken on Group Member changes for the specified time period. Figure #1: […]

Vyapin proclaims the new version release of Admin Report Kit for SharePoint 2010 (ARKSP) v1.6 with great enhancements to the audit and version history reports. Here are the highlights of the new version (v1.6): SharePoint lists audit shows the old and the new permissions / permission levels and also highlights the changes in the permissions […]

Our much anticipated major release of Admin Report Kit for SharePoint 2010 (ARKSP) version 1.2 is finally here with the following new features included, New Reports: Alternate Access Mappings Alternate Access Mappings-External Resource Authentication Providers Farm Features SandBoxed Solutions You can now run the following reports for ‘All lists in the connected site’ and ‘All […]

Information Technology Audits have been made mandatory as it is now requisite for many organizations to keep track of users’ access to critical information assets. IT audit systems and procedures must broadly address the following requirements or objectives: maintain data integrity safeguard information assets allow organizational goals or objectives to be achieved effectively use resources […]

We have come out with a new version of our SharePoint administration and reporting solution – Admin Report Kit for SharePoint 2007 (ARKSP). ARKSP version 3.7 comes with the following new inclusions: 1.Permissions Report enhancements: Additional information is now reported in the List Permissions Report. New fields like Account Type, Description, Group Owner and Group […]