Wednesday, March 29, 2006

SharePoint Tools Galore v6

Time for another update of the SharePoint and MCMS tools Galore list, version 6 here it comes.... I added some new sections (IFilters, CRM, SharePoint and Visual Studio 2005,...) and added some tools to existing sections as well.

SharePoint toolsuites
  • Coras workplace suiteSuite with
    rollup webparts (for news,documents,tasks,...), navigation controls and full language localization (This is way cool...)

  • Syntergy Provide lots of modules such as
    replication technologies for SharePoint, bulkloader, audit for SharePoint,...

  • Tools for SharePoint from SPSDev.com - contains Pocket Portal,
    My Team OrgChart WebPart, Bulk upload


  • Search
  • Entopia K-Bus for SharePoint Portal Server: Adds extra information discovery capabilities, also allows
    SharePoint to index Documentum, Opentext,...

  • WSS PowerSearch - The developers ofthis product also have
    some other nice SharePoint tools, check out PowerRecycle and PowerNav

  • Behaviortracking from Mondosearch

  • Coveo SharePoint search

  • SharePoint Advanced Search Tools (Gotdotnet)

  • Ontolica - enhanced search interface for the SPS search engine

  • SharePoint word breaker update


  • IFilters
  • Adobe PDF iFilter

  • IFiltershop - Zip iFilter, CHM, DWF, Inventor,Mindmanager,Msg, MS Project,OpenOffice,Postscript,RAR,SHTML,StarOffice,vCard,WMV,XMP

  • JPEG iFilter

  • Audio/Video iFilter -WMA,WMV & MP3

  • SharePoint XML iFilter

  • Cadcompany Autocad DWG iFilter/li>
  • IFilter for CSF

  • Citeknet IFilters - free ifilters for cab,chm,exe,hlp, rar and zip

  • WordPerfect iFilter


  • MCMS (Microsoft Content Management Server)
  • MCMS Manager 3.0

  • Telerik RAD controls for MCMS

  • AchieveForms for CMS

  • CMS.Rapid

  • Metalogix migration manager

  • Smart language connector for CMS



  • Backup/Data Recovery/Antivirus
  • SharePoint document recovery tool : Free download from Stephane Cordonnier

  • McAfee Portal Shield Antivirus solution

  • AVG SharePoint Server Edition web site Antivirus solution

  • Sybari Antigen for SharePoint

  • TrendMicro PortalProtect Antivirus solution

  • Bitdefender for Sharepoint - Antivirus solutions

  • SharePoint Dynamic Site Collection backup (Webfox Inc.)


  • Workflow
  • NetPoint Solutions

  • Factiva:Search and workflow tools for Office 2003

  • Captaris Teamplate: This workflow toolset even adds a module for fax based workflow "RightFax Workflow wizard

  • Skelta workflow .Net

  • K2.Net

  • Nintex smartlibrary

  • Smart workflow from LMR Solutions

  • DataLan FlowBuilder

  • ActiveSPS Workflow Solutions

  • Biztalk adapter for SharePoint


  • Document, Records and Digital Assets Management
  • Meridio: .Net software which integrates seamlessly into SharePoint and provides records management
    features needed to be compliant with standards such as Sarbanes-Oxley, US DOD 5015.2 records management standards,...

  • Towersoft

  • Wisdom

  • Mobius

  • Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint- digital asset management (DAM) solution to Microsoft Office Systems 2003.

  • Workshare Professional -Secure document compliance

  • Gigatrust

  • Hyper.Net (Coextant)- Cross-media content automation server

  • Retention Server for SharePoint from 80-20 - free solution for more info check out this recording

  • EntropySoft ECIGlobal document service bus


  • RSS Feeds & SharePoint
  • RSS Feed for SharePoint Lists (U2U)

  • PortalBuilder RSS Extensions for SharePoint- RSS XML feeds (and lists) are the building blocks for building live interfaces for SharePoint data using AJAX technologies. Deployed in the _layouts virtualized application, these feeds are available from server and client side code and can be used as an AJAX XML data source.

  • Syndication Generator for WSS (Bluedog Limited)

  • SharePoint Syndication Generator (Sig Weber)

  • RSS Feed Viewer webpart (Sig Weber) -RSS Viewer Web Part based on the built-in SharePoint XML Web Part and a custom XSLT transformation

  • SharePoint Syndication (DevHawk) -Extension for SharePoint (WSS and SPS) that exposes site information via standard XML syndication formats (RSS, OPML, etc)


  • Utilities & developer tools
  • SharePoint Explorer : another free tool which you can use to explore the SharePoint object model

  • Admin report kit for SPS 2003: configuration and usage reporting tool for SPS 2003

  • SharePoint site permission manager (Gotdotnet)

  • SharePoint explorer for VS.Net

  • BlueDogLimited Webpart Tool Kit

  • CAML Query Builder (U2U)

  • SharePoint Configuration analyzer

  • CAMLViewer 1.0 (Stramit)

  • James Milne's SharePoint CSS Skinner

  • Office Web Components

  • SPS Portal 2003 Search Web Service Tester

  • Windows SharePoint Services: Usage Blob Parser

  • ViewPoint - SharePoint navigation and modeling tool

  • SharePoint Utility Suite Release 2 and SPSiteManager 1.1
  • SMove for SharePoint

  • SharePoint analyzer - Gathers information about a SharePoint configuration - Created by Mike McIntyre, an Escalation Engineer in PSS, and is used extensively by PSS in troubleshooting customer issues
  • SharePoint Explorer (IE Addin)

  • Admin Report Kit for SharePoint (ARKSP) -Configuration and usage reporting tool for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services. ARKSP presents information across virtual servers, portal sites, site collection and lists in SharePoint in simple report formats.

  • SharePoint Portal Area explorer

  • Portalbuilder application blocks

  • Cross-forest people picker-This picker requires and leverages the profiles in SPS for adding users to Windows SharePoint Services sites as a replacement to the Outlook address book button.

  • Reghost.Net- Reghost your unghosted SharePoint pages

  • SharePoint Database split (WSSSplit) -This tool automates splitting large Windows Sharepoint Services Databases into several smaller Databases. Based on an input, the process locks, backups, deletes and restores a SiteCollection.

  • Universal SharePoint Manager (IDevFactory)


  • SharePoint & Visual Studio 2005
  • Visual Studio 2005 Web Part code snippets (Gotdotnet)

  • Visual Studio 2005 Web Part project template(Carlos Segura)


  • Recycle bin solutions
  • Deleted Items Document Library Custom List Template

  • SharePoint Recycle BIN (Gotdotnet project)


  • Microsoft CRM integration
  • Displaying CRM business data in SharePoint web parts

  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 List Web Part



  • InfoPath & Electronic Forms solutions
  • CaveDigital XML Form WebPreviewer Web Part- allows users without InfoPath to view the contents of forms on their web browser.

  • AchieveForms

  • InfoView 2.5

  • NetXPert InfoScope

  • InfoJet EditPart for SharePointEdit your InfoPath forms from within your browser

  • EasyForms Web Part: SharePoint: Community Beta


  • WebParts
  • Acar Learning Technologies - Poll webpart for SharePoint, Quiz webpart for SharePoint

  • CSEG Rollup webpart

  • FluidNature image webpart

  • Calendar webpart

  • My ChangePasswordControl Webpart for Sharepoint

  • Office Live meeting webparts

  • Cave Digtal XML Form webprevriewer webpart

  • SharePoint FAV 1.1

  • The Dot Net Factory - Active Directory WebManager Enterprise Edition

  • Easy tabs webpart

  • Windows Folder webpart- The Windows Folder web part allows users to store files within a standard Windows (NTFS) folder in a shared network location and display a list of those files in a SharePoint page via a consistent ‘document library’-style interface.

  • TraceInfo WebPart

  • Gant webchart

  • Brightwork Reporter - SharePoint web part to enable rollup reporting across multiple Microsoft SharePoint lists and sites

  • Flexlistviewer webpart - display lists of other sites without using SharePoint

  • Treeview webpart (Gotdotnet)


  • High availability & replication
  • Neverfail for SharePoint- Replication, switchover, failover and switchback for SharePoint

  • DoubleTake

  • Echo for SharePoint

  • Certeon - Microsoft SharePoint Application


  • Business Intelligence & Reporting
  • DSP Portal Edition : Adds webparts which can display information from OLAP cubes

  • Omnisys Power Gauge - displays measurements based on various types of data sources, using dynamic and configurable gauges.

  • Crystal Reports SPS integration kit

  • BI Portal

  • SQL Server 2000 report pack for SPS

  • Proclarity for SharePoint Portal Server

  • SharePoint Reports (Gotdotnet)


  • Miscellaneous
  • Brightwork: adds MSF (Microsoft Solution Framework) on top of SharePoint

  • Ratings & expert module for SharePoint

  • Factiva Modules to integrate news sources into your WSS/SPS (Factiva is a Dow Jones & Reuters company)

  • Advis site navigator Navigation and UI enhancements

  • Omnisys Probability Impact Matrix webpart - based on WSS risk list from Project Server 2003

  • KnowledgeLake Connect

  • Mindjet manager 6.0 with SharePoint support- Mindmanager - the famous mindmapping tool now has a free addin to support integration with SharePoint

  • Tam Tam WikiSharePoint version 1.0

  • Wikipoint - adds Wiki functionality to SharePoint



  • Offline/Mobile Portal capabilities
  • Digilink revelation Lets mobile users synchronise offline information with SPS and WSS - 15 day free trial

  • IORA Another solution for offline SharePoint usage

  • Groove - software firm that Microsoft acquired a couple of months ago, they sell amongst other Mobile workspace for SharePoint

  • BerryPoint - Adapts SharePoint for display on Blackberry

  • Colligo for SharePoint (currently in beta2)

  • BerryPoint Connect (Sourceforge) - SharePoint on Blackberry


  • Identity management and single sign on
  • Version3 - Simple Signon

  • Web Single sign on for SharePoint - Single sign on between Office and SharePoint in extranet scenario's

  • Collective Software FlexAuth - Single sign on on extranet


  • Migration tools
  • Casahl ecKnowledge

  • Tzunami deployer

  • SharePoint Import Export tools (Gotdotnet)

  • K-Wise - Migration tools



  • 3 comments:

    Erol GIRAUDY said...

    Thanks for this infos EROL www.clubsps.org

    Anonymous said...

    Great Job!!! A real time saver.

    Unknown said...

    You have left out the following sharepoint products which have been on the market for quite a while and licensed by companies all around the world including Canada, USA, UK and Australia.

    WISDOM Document Management Framework for managing your messages, documents and files.
    (This includes a SharePoint Explorer)
    http://www.macroview.com.au/WisdomDMF.htm

    WISDOM ClauseBank for saving boiler-plate text and pcitures in SharePoint and retrieving them from Microsoft Word and Outlook.
    http://www.macroview.com.au/WisdomClauseBank.htm

    WISDOM SlideBank for creating and maintaining a central library of Microsoft PowerPoint slides
    http://www.macroview.com.au/WisdomSlideBank.htm

    WISDOM Precedent for generation of complex documents, such as legal agreements, financial plans and portfolio reports using Microsoft Word and SharePoint.
    http://www.macroview.com.au/WisdomPrecedent.htm