Automate and Distribute SharePoint Changes with MetaVis Change Manager

Automate, manage and deploy changes, taxonomy updates and structure between multiple SharePoint environments.

Keeping SharePoint content organized can be a challenging process. Content and SharePoint settings change frequently and are unavoidable. Auditing, tracking and controlling these changes are essential in minimizing errors and ensuring SharePoint site consistency and governance.

MetaVis Change Manager for SharePoint provides organizations with a controllable and repeatable way to automate changes made between two or more SharePoint environments. Change Manager allows organizations to audit and track changes providing both high-level and granular reports detailing the difference between SharePoint objects including sites, libraries, fields, content types, folders, Wikis, Web parts, workflows and Term Stores. With Change Manager organizations can than easily manage and synchronization any changes across multiple SharePoint environments for consistency.

Change Manager automates the IT change management process in SharePoint including:

• Disseminating changes made in a SharePoint development environment to test, staging and production
• Bringing back data collected in production back to test and development
• Grouping sets of SharePoint objects and deploying to one or many environments
• Pushing updates to multiple SharePoint environments at once
• Scheduling recurring activities for automated distribution

Change Manager gives organizations more control over how they administer changes to their SharePoint environment to improve SharePoint governance and organization.

Learn more about the features of MetaVis Change Manager.

Read how easy it is to Create Change Control Activities

Change Manager supports change management for the following SharePoint 2010, 2007 and 2003 objects:

• Sites, lists, libraries, fields, content types, content type and column groups
• Folders, documents, document sets, pages, publishing pages, discussion groups, WIKIs and items
• WEB Parts, Workflows, InfoPath Forms
• Term stores, term sets, terms and managed metadata columns
• Users, groups, permission levels, permissions and permission inheritance
• Templates, Themes, Master Pages Layout and many others

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Supported SharePoint Environments

SharePoint Server 2010: Intranet

SharePoint Server 2010: Internet/Extranet

SharePoint Foundation 2010

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3

Microsoft Online (BPOS and Office365) and other SharePoint Hosting Providers

SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003 (read only)

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v2 (read only)

MetaVis Change Manager Features:

Live Compare – Visually identifies differences between two sites with a side-by-side comparison that details specific differences between two sites ranging from site level, content types, lists, contents and even objects such as web parts and security; the user can drill down and schedule activities to synchronize the environments.

Drag and Drop – Uses a familiar explorer like view of your SharePoint environment; users can select objects and then drag them to a destination to create an activity.

Activity Management – Central management tool of all of your activities; users can define, manage, group, copy, schedule and execute activities.

Audit Reporting – Delivery of both high level and granular reports showing the difference between SharePoint environments giving administrators the ability to drill down into the different hierarchies and initiate object synchronization activities.

Scheduling Wizard – Allows administrators to schedule SharePoint changes based on specific parameters and roll them out across the entire SharePoint environment.

Historical Audit Tracking – All change activities are tracked providing administrators with details such as when actions were initiated, completed and status updates serving as a historical audit trail to meet with compliance requirements.

SharePoint Connectivity - Connect, load and deploy to any site/site collection including hosted environments. (Application respects all SharePoint permissions.)

Work Remotely – Do all your designing from the convenience of your own computer.

No Server-side Installation – All operations are done using SharePoint web services; there is no need to install services, add-ons or agents on the SharePoint server.

How to Create Change Control Activities in Change Manager:

As organizations build applications on top of SharePoint, the new challenge becomes moving them from test to production environments without losing information or errors. All SharePoint applications are made up of many objects such as Web parts, content types, lists, etc. MetaVis Change Manager lets organizations select these objects and create activities to help manage and deploy them to other SharePoint environments in an automated way.

Create Activities in Multiple Ways:

Live Compare – This feature visually identifies differences between two sites with a side-by-side comparison that details specific differences between two sites ranging from site level, content types, lists, contents and even objects such as web parts and security. User can drill down and schedule activities to synchronize the environments.

Drag and Drop – This feature uses a familiar explorer like view of your SharePoint environment. Users can select objects and then drag them to a destination to create an activity.

Manual – The manual feature is used for common activities such as site or list copy. The user is guided through a set of user-friendly wizards to create an activity.