La solution AvePoint
Ultimately, Transfreight chose AvePoint’s DocAve
Software Platform. The administrators implemented DocAve Content Manager
and DocAve Administrator, which are both a part of the fully integrated
enterprise-class management platform for SharePoint governance. “We
immediately found DocAve to be straightforward and easy to use for our
SharePoint management needs,” Kuhl said. “Aspects such as the design –
with a single interface for all products – as well as the ability to
manage all of our SharePoint farms from one centralized location were
integral to our decision to purchase DocAve.”
DocAve Content Manager enables organizations to
comprehensively copy, move, migrate, and restructure SharePoint apps,
content, sites, and topology within or across SharePoint environments in
real time or on a schedule. When the administrators needed to deploy
new team sites for 20 separate site collections as a part of a quality
initiative, Kuhl was able to create the team sites in the development
environment, copy them to the test environment, and then move them to
the production environment with DocAve’s ribbon-based controls. After
securing the sites with Active Directory, the project was completed
within two business days and all data was moved with full fidelity.
“DocAve’s tree structure and reliability allowed me to finish the job
much quicker than I would have otherwise,” Kuhl said. “Without DocAve, I
would have needed to carry out the project by writing PowerShell
scripts, and the need to check the syntax for every site would have
caused the project to take three times longer than it did.”
DocAve Administrator offers administrators increased
efficiency and productivity with centralized search and management of
SharePoint settings, configurations, and security across SharePoint
environments. The product proved especially useful when the
administrators needed to update security settings for all users
throughout the entire environment. DocAve allows administrators to
perform all SharePoint administrative functions in bulk and across
multiple SharePoint environments at any object level. “DocAve allowed us
to carry out all administration and security tasks from one location as
well as fluidly navigate and update settings in bulk,” Kuhl said. “The
project would have taken at least two months without DocAve, but we were
able to complete it in only three weeks, saving a significant amount of
man hours.”