Quest® Site Administrator for SharePoint
Version 3.6
Release Notes
November 12, 2009
Welcome to Site Administrator for SharePoint
Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint is an innovative management and reporting solution for Microsoft SharePoint. Using its integrated one-tool approach you will easily discover SharePoint installations; maintain SharePoint resources throughout your organization; enforce server and site settings with policies; and get quick insights into server health and performance, as well as storage and user activity trends.
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint 3.6:
Information Portal Settings - Site Administrator Information Portal has the settings page which allows you to grant additional users rights to view all enterprise and site reports, and set the top number of the content databases and web applications to be displayed in the Information Portal reports.
Site Administrator Information Portal for Site Collection Administrators - The users with the Site Collection Primary or Secondary Administrator roles can access Information Portal to search for the sites in the scope of the site collections and select the report for any site displayed in the search results.
Add Server Farm Wizard Support for SharePoint 2010 - This version of Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint allows you to discover SharePoint server farms by using the Add Server Farm Wizard for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (July Beta).
Information Portal Support for SharePoint 2010 - Information Portal supports Enterprise and Site reports, Site URL search and delegation for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (July Beta).
Support for SRS 2008 - This version of Site Administrator for SharePoint supports Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as a reporting engine.
Site Administrator Information Portal - Site Administrator for SharePoint comes with a web-based reporting tool, which allows you to access and search the current SharePoint environment data quickly and easily.
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint 3.6:
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Feature |
Enhancement |
Change Request |
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General |
Site Administrator setup requests the data gathering account information if it cannot be retrieved from the previous installation. | CR#00000 |
| Reports | SQL server does not generate the Site Permission report within the default timeout. As a workaround, specify the SQL query timeout in the registry. | CR#00000 |
| Security Explorer | Backing up or Exporting permissions causes the computer to become unresponsive. | CR#00000 |
| Setting the Change items into series items option to Yes under the document library advanced settings causes infinite recursion. | CR#00000 |
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint 3.5.2:
|
Feature |
Enhancement |
Change Request |
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Information Portal |
The site creation and content last changed time is displayed as UTC. | CR#00000 |
| The Enterprise report does not show the Storage Growth Trend and Storage Space Distribution graphs. The Issues occurred section shows the error: http://localhost:port/trends/EnterpriseStorageGrow? Internal error. See logs. | CR#00000 | |
| Reports | When working with Microsoft SharePoint 2007, the Web Farms report does not display farms and servers. | ST#62152 |
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint 3.5.1:
|
Feature |
Enhancement |
Change Request |
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Reports |
The User Count trend report shows number of unique users across all content databases for web applications with several content databases. | CR#00000 |
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release of Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint.
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Feature |
Known Issue |
Change Request |
| General
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When installing Policy Agent remotely on Windows Server 2008, the installation might fail if the Terminal Server is not running on Windows Server 2008. To workaround the issue, copy Policy Agent located in C:\Program Files\Quest Software\Site Administrator for SharePoint\Console\Shgpa.msi to Windows Server 2008, and install it by running the Shgpa.msi file. | CR#55983 |
| If both SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2007 are installed on the same computer, Site Administrator discovers only the SharePoint 2007 installation. |
CR#39170 | |
| Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint setup fails, if the installation path contains an acute accent character (`). |
CR#18377 | |
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The Workspace Page list shortcut does not work for Multipage Meeting Workspace sites. |
CR#41598 |
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| If you are working with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and your farm consists of several front-end servers, you may experience the following issue: after you create a document library or a list of any type you are taken back to the New page instead of the newly created page. In this case the new item will be created, and you only need to refresh the Site Administrator console tree to view the new item. | CR#21526 | |
| If Site Administrator database is locked during Site Administrator upgrade, the upgrade will be reported as successful, but the product will not work. | CR#24476 | |
| If you open home page of a SharePoint 2007 site in the Site Administrator Management Console, an Internet Explorer Script Error may be displayed. | CR#19024 | |
| The installation wizard may display incorrect information about free space on mounted disks. | CR#16081 | |
| If you install Site Administrator to a database whose name contains an asterisk (*), the setup will finish with an error. To resolve the issue, create a database with a different name and start the setup again. | CR#18417, CR#16226, CR#16408 | |
| If you specify computer running unsupported Embedded Edition of Microsoft SQL Server as a database server during Site Administrator setup, no warnings are issued, but installation is later terminated. | CR#33286 | |
| Site Administrator for SharePoint does not work with case-sensitive instances of Microsoft SQL Server. | CR#178028 | |
| If you are using scalable hosting mode, Site Administrator for SharePoint may not be able to browse contents of the Site Content node. | CR#00000 | |
| If you rename a computer that has Site Administrator for SharePoint installed, you should reinstall the product on that computer. | CR#153789 | |
| Only one instance of the Site Administrator for SharePoint snap-in can be run simultaneously on a computer. | CR#146058 | |
| The Back and Next buttons may not work as expected in the console. | CR#157350, CR#157351 | |
| You cannot gather data from servers running both Microsoft SharePoint 2003 and 2007. | CR#19624 | |
| If you configure report data gathering to run under a specific account and then configure it to run under the default account (that is, select the Use default credentials check box in the Report Data Gathering Wizard), these changes will not be saved in the scheduled task. To resolve the issue, complete the Report Data Gathering Wizard again without changing any settings. | CR#31679 | |
| If you right-click a site node prior to
selecting it, the site home page will be displayed in right pane
irrespective of the item you selected from the shortcut menu.
Note: This issue is only applicable if you are using Site Administrator Management Console on computers running Microsoft Windows XP. |
CR#19567 | |
| If you cancel the installation wizard during the upgrade process, the scheduled Data Gathering Task may be lost. | CR#24952 | |
| If you try uninstalling policy agents from the Site Administrator console, you get an error message. To remove the agents, use the Add/Remove Programs dialog on the local computer. | CR#33341 | |
| If you specify name of a computer running Microsoft SQL Reporting Services on Microsoft Windows XP in the Reporting Configuration Wizard, you may get an Invalid namespace error. To resolve the issue, specify URL of the Report server instead of computer name. | CR#33875 | |
| You cannot manage and gather report data from servers discovered by hostheaders. To workaround the issue, log on to the SharePoint server and take the steps described in the Microsoft article available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281308. |
CR#19516 | |
| To remove Quest Site Administrator, you should remove both Quest Site Administrator and Policy Manager using the Add/Remove Programs dialog. | CR#00000 | |
| When logging to Site Administrator, My Site is displayed in the Site Administrator console along with the personal sites of different users. The content of My Site coincides with that of the personal site of the user currently logged on. | CR#00000 | |
|
SharePoint Server Discovery |
SharePoint virtual servers that use basic authentication in IIS are not supported in this release. |
CR#157318 |
| If a virtual server contains several site collections using different SQL servers, and you do not have access permissions to at least one of these SQL Server, such virtual server will be considered unmanaged. | CR#33560 | |
| There is an error when showing Workspace Pages List. | CR#41598 | |
| Front-end servers created with the Extend Web Application to Another IIS site option in SharePoint Central Administration are always considered to be unmanaged. | CR#00000 | |
| Web Applications based on IIS sites with SSL enabled and host header specified for unsecured access are always considered to be unmanaged. | CR#24666 | |
| Web Applications based on IIS sites where SSL enabled with host header are always considered to be unmanaged. | CR#24675 | |
| Virtual Servers without site collections are always considered to be unmanaged. | CR#20372 | |
| If more than one virtual server is installed on a computer and not all the information might have been received from these virtual servers during the discovery, these servers will be displayed with the same name under the Unmanaged Servers node. | CR#172033 | |
| If anonymous access is enabled for a SharePoint virtual server in IIS, its web sites will not be displayed under the server in the console tree. | CR#164839 | |
| The discovery process may not stop immediately after you click the Stop button. | CR#172045 | |
| If you are rediscovering an unmanaged SharePoint
server having all necessary permissions, and the domain information for the
server is displayed as N/A, the server will be added to the list of
managed SharePoint servers, but you will not be able to set up data
gathering on the server. To workaround the issue, remove the server both
from the Managed and Unmanaged lists and try discovering the
server again. Note: This issue is applicable only to the individual computer scan. |
CR#18825 | |
| If you specify NLB name of the server for the Individual computer scan, the server will always be displayed as unmanaged. To workaround the issue, use NetBIOS name instead. | CR#21472 | |
| Discovery of SharePoint servers does not work if you disable NetBIOS. |
CR#16616, CR#17260 | |
|
Reports |
If a user has been granted several permissions, including Limited Access, the Site Permission report will not display this permission in SharePoint. | CR#00000 |
| If you type I18N characters or full-width digits in the filter fields, you will get an empty report. | CR#00000 | |
| The Traffic usage and User response time reports will not be available for virtual servers whose IIS logging file format is not W3C Extended Log File Format. |
CR#148120 | |
| In the Used disk space trend and Storage space distribution reports, site storage space and System data information may be calculated incorrectly. | CR#24903 CR#24907 | |
| In the Days until critical capacity report, an exaggerated amount of free disk space may be displayed. | CR#24904 | |
| If you enter account name for the Permission Report in the DNS format, you will get an error message and the report will not be displayed. | CR#21534 | |
| The account you assign to run the data gathering task should have Read and Read and Execute rights on the scheduled task that invokes the job. The scheduled task is named SPM-Report Data Gathering Task. |
CR#163046 | |
| If you gather data from a computer where a firewall restricts access to WMI, or where a firewall restricts access to WMI on the computer where the product is installed, the product may gather incomplete data. You will be able to view the reports, but some information may not be available. To resolve this issue, configure your firewall to allow access to WMI. To configure Windows Firewall, take the steps described in the Microsoft article available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875605. | CR#159468 | |
| Reports in the Report Pack may not work if your reporting database is hosted on a remote SQL server. The reason is the use of Integrated Windows authentication in the data source of the report pack by default. For more information, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/rsuiref/htm/f1_rsc_manager_v1_5sv6.asp | CR#167694 | |
| If SSL is enabled on a virtual server, reports from the Usage Analysis folder may not be displayed correctly for that server. | CR#161222 | |
| If you change the name of a Web site extended with SharePoint services in IIS Manager, some user activity information might not be collected from the corresponding virtual server. | CR#153752 | |
| If you change the Web site identification settings of a virtual server through IIS Manager, the links in the reports may not be correct. | CR#154195 | |
| When you collect report data from a virtual SharePoint server on several front-end servers, the result of data gathering might be displayed as Success in the Last result column of the Reporting tab, even if one of the front-end servers could not be processed. | CR#174099 | |
| When you restore a SharePoint server to a new location, previous URL of site collections will be displayed in the reports. | CR#182100 | |
| The Effective Permission report does not display permissions acquired by the user through local group membership. | CR#21242 | |
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If Site Administrator uses local Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express and remote Microsoft SQL Reporting Services 2005 (Express Edition), all reports will be unavailable. |
CR#18615 |
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| Custom Report Wizard fails if Site Administrator for SharePoint repository is on SQL Express. To avoid this problem, use SQL 2005 Standard or Enterprise edition. | CR#42945 | |
| When clicking to show the Custom Report Wizard menu item, the console is inactive if data gathering has not been completed. Wait until it is completed and click again. | CR#42946 | |
| Custom Reports and Microsoft SRS Report Builder Model are not supported for Reporting Services in SharePoint integration mode. | CR#42960 | |
| The Top Search Phrases reports are available only for portal sites. | CR#204704 | |
| When opening the report created with Site Administrator Custom Report Wizard in the Report Builder, the Prompt box will be clear. | CR # 45240 | |
| The export of reports containing nested tables (e.g. Site Group Membership reports) to Microsoft Excel is not supported. For more information, please refer to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155976.aspx | CR#00000 | |
| If the MS Arial Unicode font is not available on the machine used to export the Site Permission and the User Permission reports to PDF, the Japanese characters will not be recognized. As a workaround, install the MS Arial Unicode font on the machine hosting Site Administrator console. | CR#00000 | |
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There are some limitation for SRS 2008 in SharePoint integrated Mode: If reports are created for the SharePoint Server Farm hosting SRS 2008, the following issues might occur:
- the links to the SharePoint hosting the reports might not work; - the top used content, site content access, site health alert and user activity reports might be unavailable. To workaround the issue, clean up the collected report data and disable report data collection for the SharePoint Farm hosting SRS 2008. | CR#621211 | |
| Information Portal | ||
| Make sure you specify the correct user credentials during the Information Portal installation. If the user information is incorrect, the setup will fail. In this case, re-install the tool and specify the correct user credentials. | CR#00000 | |
| Information Portal doesn’t work if install path contains non ASCII symbols. | CR#00000 | |
| If you work with the information portal for a long time, the Authorization Required page might appear. To workaround the issue, simply refresh the page (F5) once again. | CR#00000 | |
| Information Portal may not work with Chrome. When trying to open Information Portal in Chrome browser, the "client used wrong authentication scheme: (null) for / (needed NTLM)" error appears in the httpd.log file. | CR#00000 | |
|
Policies | ||
| The Alert list for the site lists and Alert list for the site libraries policy settings are not applied if accounts are not explicitly added to the list of site users or if their e-mail addresses are not specified. | CR#166633 | |
Most of the Site Collection Use Confirmation and
Auto-Deletion policies are not applied to the newly created Microsoft
SharePoint 2007 web applications. To resolve the issue, follow these steps:
|
CR#24474 | |
| In Microsoft SharePoint 2007, the Maximum version age and Maximum item age policies are not applied to default and hidden lists and document libraries. Lists and document libraries created by users are processed as intended. | CR#24986 | |
| If you apply the Site lock status and Lock reason policy settings to a site collection and the status of the first setting is No access, no other settings will be applied. | CR#160080 | |
| The Site group permissions policy setting can be applied only for an existing group. | CR#163342 | |
| If you are not a member of the Local Administrators group on the local computer and do not have administrators rights on the SQL Server, you can install the Policy Agent, but the policies cannot be applied to the servers. | CR#180453 | |
| If you want to apply the block inherited policies option, select the Block inherited polices check box in the Policy Links tab, then right-click the server node and select Refresh from the shortcut menu. | CR#183217 | |
| If you add a link to the subsite of the virtual server, one of the links from the Inheritance field will disappear. To resolve the issue, go to this virtual server node, right-click it and select Refresh from the shortcut menu. | CR#183349 | |
| Alert type for the Alert list for site lists and Alert list for site libraries settings is always displayed as All. However, the policy works exactly as you specified in the policy setting. | CR#21445 | |
| If you specify account name for the Restricted Site Groups policy in any format, other than the Domain\Username format, the account name will not be resolved. |
CR#18381 | |
| Site Administrator Policy Manager ignores the Document Library Versioning Settings option enabled on SharePoint 2007. | CR#00000 | |
| Entering a policy name containing non-alphanumeric characters will cause an error message to appear. | CR#00000 | |
| The following permissions in Site group permission policy setting might not be managed in SharePoint 2007: View Application Pages within List Permission and Create Groups, Use Self-Service Site Creation, Open within Site Permission. | CR#50033 |
This version of Site Administrator for SharePoint supports upgrade from versions 1.5 and higher.
The upgrade scenario is divided in the following steps:
1. Uninstall all policy agents.
2.
Install the new Site Administrator console using the existing
configuration database.
To upgrade from the previous version of Site Administrator console, you should
simply run the setup. If the setup detects a previous version of the product,
the upgrade wizard will start. During the upgrade you will not be prompted to
specify any settings.
3. Install the policy agents to the virtual servers.
After the upgrade, all discovered virtual servers, report data, and policy links will be preserved. However, it is recommended that you do the following:
When upgrading from Site Administrator for SharePoint 3.1 and earlier, update reports: select a report in the console tree and click Next on the Reporting Configuration Wizard page in the right pane.
Note: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Embedded Edition of Microsoft SQL Server is not supported in this version of Site Administrator for SharePoint.
Note: During the Site Administrator upgrade, the user might be required to remove the previous version of Security Auditor and install the new one. It is not necessary to follow this requirement.
Note: Information Portal is not upgraded automatically when upgrading from Site Administrator for SharePoint 3.5.2 and earlier to 3.6. To upgrade Information Portal, run the setup. After the upgrade, all report links saved before the upgrade will be preserved.
Before installing Site Administrator for SharePoint, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
| Platform | For Site Administrator console:
For Site Administrator database and Reporting server:
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| Memory | For Site Administrator console:
For Site Administrator database and Reporting server:
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| Disk Space | For Site Administrator console:
For Site Administrator database and Reporting server:
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| Operating System | One of the following:
Note that for SharePoint front-end servers running Windows 2008, it is required to install IIS 6 WMI compatibility component. |
| Additional Software | Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
One of the following:
Microsoft SQL Reporting Services 2005 SP1 or later (remote or local) or Microsoft SQL Reporting Services 2008. |
This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.
This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. It supports simultaneous operation with multilingual data. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe.
The Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint CD contains the following:
The Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint Web package contains the following:
Refer to Site Administrator User Guide for installation instructions.
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