CSw SharePoint 2010 Inspector

System requirements

Must be run on a SharePoint 2010 server (Foundation or Enterprise).
"Run as" administrator, or be logged in as an administrator

The CSw SharePoint Inspector uses the actual SharePoint dlls so must be run on the server as the administrator user. If there is demand I will make a desktop version that interrogates SharePoint through its web services.

Download

To download the CSw SharePoint 2010 Inspector create a user account on this site (see top right), log in, and then "download" from the link that will appear below when you log in.

This version is free but it will stop working at the end of March 2012 so the plan is to put out a version with improvements and bug fixes before then.

CSw SharePoint 2010 Inspector Menu: Home , Features and screen shots , Download

SharePoint 2010 site tree view with list and listitem properties and security

Use the CSw SharePoint 2010 Inspector to:

see your site collection, sites, libraries, documents (and folders) in a navigable tree view
quickly see property and security detail for sites, libraries, documents and folders
see the documents in a library all at once - not buried in folders
enter the url of a document and get the property and security detail for that document
for a detailed list of features see the list below or the screen shots document

Who should use the CSw SharePoint 2010 Inspector?

I was working on a project migrating documents into SharePoint 2010 and wanted a quick and easy way to look at specific metadata, properties and security for documents. The project was too intense to do anything at the time (there are other tools out there but none did quite what we wanted) so when the project was over I built this up.

What we wanted most of all was to quickly check that:

custom properties were being applied (including custom properties not specified in the content type),
creator and last modified by user and dates were correct
version specific data was correct
security was correct
the expected documents were being migrated

If you like it and want more features then I'm happy to grow it into something useful!

Features

property detail includes (where relevant):
- Title, Description, Name, GUID, Unique or inherited security?, library versioning, number of items and number of folders in library
- for library items (listitems)
  - the content typeID and url
  - the SharePoint and custom properties stored in the listitem properties collection
  - for files (SPFile) the SharePoint and custom properties both for the file object and its older versions stored in the file and version properties collections
security detail includes
- for the selcted item: user name and assigned permissions
- for the site as a whole:

full list of users and their unique numeric SharePoint ID
full list of cutom permissions and their unique numeric SharePoint ID

Want more features? Just ask.

If you like it - help us improve it

If you find it useful please let me know your suggestions for improvements or additional property information you'd like to be able to see. You can email me at the details below, or you can comment in the forums (not quite available yet) on this website.