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SharePoint Manager

Centralized Permissions Administration and Reporting for SharePoint

SharePoint Manager provides centralized access reporting and audit, delegated permissions administration, automated role-based access control, an extranet directory solution, and self-service workflow-based access requests for SharePoint. SharePoint Manager is designed to provide the critical security and access management required to protect an organization's valuable information.

SharePoint Manager solves the essential business and technical challenges of deploying SharePoint in the enterprise by enabling effective enterprise-wide management, enforcement, and audit for even the largest and most complex environments.

SharePoint Manager performs five critical security functions:

Site Discovery and Continuous Permissions Inventory

SharePoint Manager continuously inventories and monitors your SharePoint systems to discover new sites as they appear and to detect all permissions changes, providing complete visibility over what SharePoint resources exist and who may access them. Out-of-the-box reports and an easy-to-use report designer provide a rich and extensible reporting solution for all aspects of SharePoint permissions within your organization.

Self-Service Access Requests

SharePoint Manager provides a rich set of self-service workflows to allow end users to request access to sites, lists, document libraries, folders, and documents. Requests can be fulfilled automatically or routed for approval to site owners based upon configurable settings. Workflow requests and approval task-tracking user interfaces are embedded within SharePoint so that users never have to leave the SharePoint environment and are provided a consistent experience that matches the look and feel of your SharePoint site.

Delegated Site Permissions Administration

SharePoint Manager's sophisticated workflow automation improves IT productivity and reduces administration costs by allowing site admins to manage their sites, subject to granular controls. It simplifies SharePoint permission administration by unifying management across an entire organization's SharePoint environments with a single centralized management tool. In SharePoint Manager, site owners and auditors can easily see who has which level of access for their sites, lists, document libraries, and folders in one location — even when access is granted using Active Directory or SharePoint groups. SharePoint Manager closes the common security gap caused when AD groups created to grant a specific level of access in one site are unknowingly used to grant access in others.

Management is performed from directly within friendly web interfaces that plug in as SharePoint features and inherit the look and feel of the SharePoint sites. Site owners can review requests for access pending their approval and even delegate some of the management tasks to other individuals. All actions performed against the sites they manage will have a full audit trail that they can review.

Dynamic Site Access and Revocation

SharePoint Manager uses the Roles-Based Access Control (RBAC) framework provided by the Dot Net Workflow platform to delegate access and manage permissions efficiently. Its flexible RBAC system can leverage your Active Directory, HR system, and other directories to control access and make policy decisions based upon a combination of a user's current job function, work location, cost center, or any custom attribute used to define their role. SharePoint Manager easily automates granting and revoking SharePoint access as users change job duties or move between departments and locations within an organization.

Extranet Directory Solution

SharePoint Manager allows SharePoint sites to be accessed by extranet users without the need to create user accounts for them in Active Directory. The Dot Net Workflow metadirectory is a fully compliant .NET Membership and Role Provider that simultaneously supports secure access for both internal Active Directory users and extranet users. The metadirectory can be used by any .NET 2.0 or greater application that supports this method of authentication and authorization. The Dot Net Workflow metadirectory is also an Identity Provider built on the Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation supporting SAML and WS* federation. SharePoint Manager's workflows and role-based security tools simplify extranet user management by securely enabling designated staff and business partners to manage their own extranet metadirectory users and their users' SharePoint access — without the cost and risk associated with granting access to the corporate Active Directory.

Why SharePoint Manager

SharePoint Manager offers the most powerful administration of SharePoint permissions available and it offers:

• Unified Console - its single management console allows full management of SharePoint sites, lists, folders, and documents in the same interface for managing users, groups, Exchange mailboxes, etc
• Workflow - Its Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation-based architecture allows complete customization of existing processes and the creation of your own processes to match any business need
• PowerShell Automation Platform - Its can utilize any PowerShell cmdlet as a protected operation in a workflow with granular delegation, approval routing, and built-in audit logging
• Extranet Directory Solution - It maintains SharePoint extranet user accounts in the EmpowerID directory separate from your internal Active Directory
• User Experience - Its flexible user interface options including web, SharePoint, Silverlight, and a rich WPF client.
• Role-Based Access Control - Its proven enterprise Role-Based Access Control model granularly delegates and reports on who has access to what