How To Capture Configuration of SharePoint 2007 Farm?

Question

I have inherited a couple of SharePoint Server 2007 Farms and would like to capture their configurations.  

Is there a tool that can collect the basics of a Farm? Such as: name of Web Apps and Sites, System Accounts used, owners of sites, etc.?

Thanks

Tom

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Thomas Talley

Answer 1

For SharePoint 2007, I found this tool on Codeplex for  you:

http://spdocgen.codeplex.com/

PS: I have not used this yet.

Interestingly, this can be easily achievable using PowerShell in SharePoint 2010 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff645391.aspx)

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Answer 2

SPSFarmReport is another tool on Codeplex that will output the farm configuration to an HTML file.

These tools in general are helpful, though they have difficulty documenting customizations since they obviously can't know about every customization that exists. You'll primarily receive infrastructure-related configuration on the big items (database names, web applications, site collections, solution names/guids, etc)

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Jason Warren

Infrastructure Specialist

Habanero Consulting Group

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