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SharePoint Maintenance Pain

 

echo for SharePoint provides rich features that allow you to easily replicate and deploy changes to web parts, SharePoint sites, settings, areas, lists, libraries, permissions, views, fields, alerts, metadata and more.

 

It orchestrates those changes to thousands of sites at once across multiple sites directories in very few clicks. It always preserves your data whilst making its changes.

 

SharePoint can be so successful at solving your organizations collaboration problems new sites spread like wildfire. Deployments can quickly amount to one thousand sites ten thousand and even one hundred thousand sites for large organizations.

 

SharePoint provides no capability to automatically and easily replicate site and area changes to your portal whilst preserving your valuable portal data...

This maintenance pain can result in an outdated, static portal less attractive to users.

 

echo for SharePoint allows administrators to easily perform SharePoint design changes to thousands of sites in a site directory at once and still preserve the data in those sites. It works with areas too.

 

echo for SharePoint relieves administrators of tedious manual updates and significantly reduces the operational costs of any SharePoint deployment.

 

Features

 

Benefits

Utilizing a powerful easy to use interface echo for SharePoint and echo for WSS allows you to:

  • Abandon CAML and coding and deploy change and delete new lists and web parts in bulk.
  • Replicate list settings including approval routes, version settings and event sinks.
  • Replicate list permissions in sites or areas
  • Replicate list fields and list views in sites or areas
  • Remove a list from a site or area (Lists include document libraries, events, announcements, discussion groups, links, tasks, issues and more)
  • Replicate web parts from a web part page to one or many destinations, including web part connections
  • Deploy a web part to many web part pages using a web part definition file (dwp).
  • Remove web parts from web part pages
  • Replicate site settings, site themes and regional settings.
  • Replicate user alerts for lists and items.
  • Replicate permission inheritance, site users and user rights.
  • Replace list field values in bulk
  • Replicate actual list items (events, announcements, links and custom lists).
  • Replicate Front Page customizations including navigation links and web part zones.
  • Replicate My Sites / Personal Site customizations
  • Batch and schedule tasks to run unattended.
  • echo for SharePoint and echo for WSS allows SharePoint professionals and administrators to:

  • Reduce the development and operational costs of SharePoint
  • Delivers Phase 1 Portals earlier. echo allows professionals to confidently build and deploy portal functionality anytime (in Phases)
  • Keep SharePoint organized and more relevant to content consumers.
  • Significantly reduce support and maintenance costs and timeframes.
  • Delivers your organization a more dynamic portal.
  • Accelerate and enhance design, prototyping and piloting phases.
  • Improve SharePoint search with updated meta tags and data.
  • Deploy more flexible portal taxonomies otherwise difficult to justify due to high maintenance costs
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    Product Feature Summary

    Feature

    Insert

    Change

    Remove

    List Fields1 2

    Y

    Y

    Y

    List Views

    Y

    Y

    X*

    List Permissions

    Y

    Y

    Y

    List Settings3

    -

    Y

    -

    Web parts4

    Y5

    Y

    Y

    Web part connections

    Y

    Y

    Y

    Site alerts

    Y

    Y

    X*

    Site settings6

    -

    Y

    -

    Site users and user permissions

    Y

    Y

    Y

    Update meta data / field values

    -

    Y

    -

     

    1 Including document libraries, events, tasks, issues, links, discussion groups, announcements and more from WSS sites or areas.
    2 Includes changes to text, choice, lookup, date, Yes/No and calculated fields.
    3 Including document versioning, approval and event sink assembly settings.
    4 Including custom, data view, list view and other web part types.
    5 Includes deployment of web parts from a web part definition file (dwp).
    6 Including theme and regional settings.
    * Feature scheduled for next minor upgrade and will be available as a free upgrade on maintenance agreement.

     

    What Version Do You Need?

    echo for SharePoint and echo for WSS comes in many different versions. Find the version that best meets your needs.

    echo Version

    Summary

    echo for Production

    The Production Editions of echo for SharePoint and echo for WSS allows SharePoint professionals and administrators to easily perform SharePoint maintenance, relieving expensive Portal Professionals from performing monotonous site updates.
    Click here for more information

     

    echo Deployment Suites

     

    echo for SharePoint and echo for WSS Deployment Suites allow users to manage Development, Testing, and Production changes to their portal. The suite includes:

  • 1 X license for the Developer edition of echo
  • 1 X special test license for test machines
  • 1 X license for echo Production Server edition
  • Suites are available for deployments of different sizes.

     Click here for more information

     

     

    echo for Production

     

    The Production editions of echo for SharePoint and echo for WSS allows SharePoint professionals and administrators to easily perform SharePoint maintenance, relieving expensive Portal Professionals from performing monotonous site updates.  echo for SharePoint and echo for WSS are available for deployments of different sizes. The following table highlights their differences:

    Feature

    echo for SharePoint

    echo for WSS

    Small Business

    Standard

    Enterprise

    Small Business

    Standard

    Enterprise

    Maximum number of sites

    1,000

    5,000

    Unlimited

    1,000

    5,000

    Unlimited

    Multiple  virtual servers per machine

    No

    No

    Yes

    No

    No

    Yes

    Supports WSS site collections

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Content  databases per portal/site

    1

    1

    Multiple

    1

    1

    Multiple

    Replicates changes to  multiple virtual servers

    No

    No

    Yes unlimited

    No

    No

    Yes unlimited

    Supports SharePoint Portal Server

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    No

    No

    No

    Server Farms

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Maximum number of users

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Front Page customizations Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
    My Sites Yes Yes Yes Yes
    Batching and Scheduling * * Yes * * Yes

    * Batching and Scheduling can be purchased as an add-on option


    echo Deployment Suites

     

    echo for SharePoint and echo for WSS Deployment Suites allow users to manage Development, Testing, and Production changes to their portal. Deployment Suites includes:

  • A test license that allows echo to run on a test machine within the same domain as the production server.
  • The Production Edition of echo.
  • Feature

    echo for SPS Deployment Suite

    echo for WSS Deployment Suite

    Small Business

    Standard

    Enterprise

    Small Business

    Standard

    Enterprise

    Maximum number of sites

    1,000

    5,000

    Unlimited

    1,000

    5,000

    Unlimited

    Multiple  virtual servers per machine

    No

    No

    Yes

    No

    No

    Yes

    Supports WSS site collections

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    Content  databases per portal/site

    1

    1

    Multiple

    1

    1

    Multiple

    Replicates changes to  multiple virtual servers

    No

    No

    Yes unlimited

    No

    No

    Yes unlimited

    Supports SharePoint Portal Server

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    No

    No

    No

    Maximum number of users

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

     

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