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Admin Report Kit for SharePoint, our powerful SharePoint administration and reporting tool is now officially released in line with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 release. It is our first official product release for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010.

ARK for SharePoint 2010 with its 80+ out-of-the-box reports presents configuration information about various objects associated with the SharePoint environment. The following is a brief summary of the Built-In reports available:

1.Web Application Level reports: Information about Web application settings and features, site collection details, site collection administrators, site collection workflow templates, site collection features, web application user permissions, e-mail settings, content database definition, site collection quotas and limits information, page visits corresponding to the web applications.

2.Site Level reports: ARKSP at a Site level reports information about Sites & Sub-sites configuration details, site security settings, lists created in a site, alerts, site features, site permission levels, site people & groups, site permissions, site content types, site hits summary, page hits, site visitors, web pages, web parts utilization, recycle bin, list templates and audit event reports corresponding to the site.

3.List Level reports: ARKSP reports List Summary and Configuration, List activity, Modified date of the List, List permissions, Security associated with the List items, List Visits and List Hits, Newly added List items, Recently modified/deleted items, Version history, Audit event reports, Available List Columns, Workflows, Views, Templates, File Types, List Size and List of checked-out documents corresponding to the List.

For a 30 day trial version please visit our ARKSP product home page at http://www.vyapin.com/products/sharepoint/sharepoint-2010/arksp/sharepoint-2010-reports.htm

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 Members are added. List Permissions report gives information about the permissions associated with the individual users and groups. The account type of the users and groups, Group Owner and Group members are some of the critical information that is made available from now on.

2.Database Truncation: ARKSP now allows the user to clean up the database created as a result of Power Export tasks. The option to truncate the application database can be accessed from ‘Tools?Application Database Truncation Settings’. The database would be truncated based on the frequency defined in the truncation settings.

3.Blocked File Types report: ARKSP through the Blocked File Types report enumerates the list of file types that are blocked from downloading and uploading corresponding to the specific web application. Web application and the Blocked File Types are the fields that are reported.

4.Regional Settings Report: Regional settings report retrieves regional information defined against a site within a web application.

Report fields are: Web URL, Web Locale, Title, Time Zone, Calendar, Alternate Calendar, Work Days, First Day of Week, First Week of Year, Start Time and End Time.

5. Invited Users-Feature Status: Invited Users-Feature Status report enumerates the list of invited users to the site and their activation status information corresponding to the Enterprise Site Collection Feature and Enterprise Site Feature.

Report fields are: Web URL, Web Title, Enterprise Site Collection Features, Enterprise Site Features, Account Display Name, Account Name, Account Type and Permission Levels.

6.List Hits-Monthly Usage: List Hits-Monthly Usage report gives information about the number of visits corresponding to a list for the last 31 months or for a specified month range. The visits are categorized month wise.

Report fields are: Web URL, Web Title, List Name, Total Hits, Month1, Month2, ….. , Month31

7. Page Hits-Monthly Usage: Page Hits-Monthly Usage report gives information about the number of visits corresponding to a page in a site for the last 31 months along with the last accessed data.

Report fields are: Web URL, Web Title, Page URL, Last Accessed Date, Total Hits, Month1, Month2,……, Month31

8.Site Hits Summary-Monthly Usage: Site Hits Summary-Monthy Usage report presents detailed information on the number of visits corresponding to the site for a specified month range or for the last 31 months.

Report fields are: Web URL, Web Title, Total Hits, Month1, Month2,……, Month31.

9.Site Visitors-Monthly Usage: Site Visitors-Monthly Usage displays the number of times a user has visited each site for a specified month range or for the last 31 months along with the recent accessed date.

Report fields are: Web URL, Web Title, Site Visitors, Last Accessed Date, Total Hits, Month1, Month2,….., Month31

ARKSP’s new usage reports are certain to help SharePoint administrators monitor and administer the SharePoint resources effectively.

Also, we have launched ARK for SharePoint 2010 recently. It would be our first SharePoint 2010 product version, besides DocKIT for SharePoint 2010 (beta). You can read more information about this new version and download a 30-day evaluation copy from:

http://www.vyapin.com/products/sharepoint/sharepoint-2010/arksp/sharepoint-2010-reports.htm

The much anticipated release of SharePoint 2010 is on the cards. It’s almost official that the final cut would be released by June 2010. The beta version is already out and is certainly creating a buzz among the business community. The latest version that is coming up has flexible deployment options and has kindled our excitement as well. Several customers have inquired about our products’ compatibility with the latest version of SharePoint. Our answer to them is yes, we have all our products ready for the next big release of SharePoint.

Our reporting tool for SharePoint, ARKSP is ready for its major upgrade for the SharePoint 2010 release and should be up and running by next week. DocKIT, our flagship document migration solution is to follow suit with its upgraded version for SharePoint 2010. We have been getting a lot of queries from keen customers about DocKIT’s compatibility with SharePoint 2010 and we are not going to make them wait any further than the first week of Feb 2010. The SharePoint to file system migration solution, SPListX is gearing up for the release with additional ‘Search Criteria’ features, which, the users are going to find it extremely useful in pulling out precise ‘spot-on’ information. Our SharePoint list management solution, SPListM comes out with a beta version by March 2010. XPlica, our solution to your migration needs (from SharePoint to SharePoint libraries) would be the last to be released. We have scheduled it for April 2010. We are on full speed to keep our solutions abreast with the biggest release of SharePoint and to continue helping our customers leverage their SharePoint resources. The beta version of our products has already started to roll out and is being evaluated by some of our renowned customers. We have already started to listen to some excellent feedback from our customers and we are looking forward to keep the momentum going on. The next couple of months are going to be extremely significant for us as we deliver the latest versions to our customers and prospects.
Looking forward to an absorbing month ahead…