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DocAve 6: Administrator for SharePoint

User Guide

DocAve® 6 Service Pack 1 Administrator

Revision C Issued October 2012

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DocAve 6: Administrator for SharePoint

Table of Contents

Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 2

About DocAve Administrator for SharePoint ................................................................................................ 6

Complementary Products ......................................................................................................................... 6

Submitting Documentation Feedback to AvePoint ...................................................................................... 6

Before You Begin ........................................................................................................................................... 7

Configuration ............................................................................................................................................ 7

Agents ....................................................................................................................................................... 7

Required Permissions ............................................................................................................................... 7

Local System Permissions ..................................................................................................................... 8

Getting Started .............................................................................................................................................. 9

Launching Administrator for SharePoint .................................................................................................. 9

User Interface Overview ......................................................................................................................... 10

Selecting Farms and Nodes ..................................................................................................................... 11

Viewing and Searching Content .................................................................................................................. 12

Viewing Site Collection Lists .................................................................................................................... 12

Viewing Users and Permissions .............................................................................................................. 12

Performing an Admin Search using Admin Search Wizard ..................................................................... 13

Performing an Admin Search using Admin Search Form Mode ............................................................. 14

Performing a Security Search using Security Search Wizard .................................................................. 14

Performing a Security Search using Security Search Form Mode ........................................................... 17

Using a Predefined Search ...................................................................................................................... 18

Managing Content ...................................................................................................................................... 19

Creating Site Collections and Content Databases ................................................................................... 19

Deploying Site Maximum Depth ............................................................................................................. 19

Extending Web Applications ................................................................................................................... 20

Moving Site Collections across Content Databases ................................................................................ 20

Checking for Broken Links ....................................................................................................................... 21

Searching Web Parts ............................................................................................................................... 22

Search Web Parts ................................................................................................................................ 22

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Further Operations for Search Web Parts in Job Monitor .................................................................. 23

Searching Alerts ...................................................................................................................................... 24

Deleting Web Applications...................................................................................................................... 24

Deleting Orphan Sites ............................................................................................................................. 25

Scanning on the Back-end and Saving as a Plan ................................................................................. 25

Scanning Immediately on the Front-end ............................................................................................ 27

Additional Operations for Deleting Orphan Sites in Job Monitor ....................................................... 28

Searching for Duplicate Files ................................................................................................................... 28

Right-Click Operations on Each Level ...................................................................................................... 29

Managing Security ...................................................................................................................................... 31

Cloning User Permissions ........................................................................................................................ 31

Cloning Site Permissions ......................................................................................................................... 32

Using Dead Account Cleaner ................................................................................................................... 33

Using Plan Mode ................................................................................................................................. 33

Using Scan Mode ................................................................................................................................. 35

Additional Operations for Dead Account Cleaner in Job Monitor ...................................................... 36

Exporting, Editing, and Importing Configuration Files ............................................................................ 36

Exporting Configuration Files .............................................................................................................. 36

Modifying an Exported Configuration File .......................................................................................... 37

Importing a Configuration File ............................................................................................................ 38

Breaking Inheritance for Sub-nodes ....................................................................................................... 39

Pushing Inheritance to Sub-nodes .......................................................................................................... 40

Security Management Web Part ............................................................................................................. 41

Deploying the Security Management Solution ................................................................................... 41

Enabling Session State Service ............................................................................................................ 41

Activating the Security Management Features .................................................................................. 42

Using the Security Management Web Part ........................................................................................ 42

Downloading Search Reports ...................................................................................................................... 48

Downloading Admin Search Reports ...................................................................................................... 48

Downloading Security Search Reports .................................................................................................... 48

Administrator Caveats ................................................................................................................................ 49

Using Hot Key Mode ................................................................................................................................... 50

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Management Tab .................................................................................................................................... 50

Admin Search Wizard Mode/Delete Orphan Sites .............................................................