SharePoint Architecture Explorer tool

Explore your SharePoint architecture with a tree view

A SharePoint architecture spans from your IT's largest containers, like farms and tenants, down to small containers, like sites, lists, and libraries. While SharePoint reports give you detailed information, viewing the SharePoint hierarchy helps you quickly grasp how things are organized, making it easy to understand relationships and dependencies. With SharePoint Manager Plus' Explorer tool, you can quickly navigate from top-level objects like your farm, tenant, or site collection down to a subsite with a collapsible tree view. Select an object to display its properties and see all users and groups who have access to it.

View object properties in your SharePoint hierarchy

Selecting a farm, tenant, or web application will display its properties like the object's type, status, version, parent object, and service account information. Navigate through the hierarchy of your SharePoint structure by expanding and collapsing the nodes.

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Click to expand the parent node

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View the selected object's properties

Click to expand the parent node
View the selected object's properties

Identify permissions of users and groups

Selecting a site collection or site will display its properties and storage, along with the permission levels of the users and groups that have access.

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View the permissions of all users and groups that have access

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Expand and collapse nodes to navigate the hierarchy

View the permissions of all users and groups that have access
Expand and collapse nodes to navigate the hierarchy

Use cases with Explorer

Access review audit

Prepare for audits and compliance checks by using the Explorer to map out permissions. From SharePoint groups to individual users, understand who has what level of access and take necessary actions to remove excess privileges.

Migration preparation

While migrating to SharePoint Online or between other versions of SharePoint, it's crucial to understand the hierarchy of the source and target environments. Doing a quick check on the storage and structure of your site collections will help you plan your migration.

Architecture review

Understand how content is structured across your SharePoint organization. Identify inconsistencies with the naming, how content is grouped, and how the structure aligns with your organization's rules.

Benefits of using SharePoint Manager Plus' Explorer

• Strengthen SharePoint security: By revealing broken inheritance and permission risks, Explorer helps you identify security risks before they can likely turn into incidents.
• Save time and effort: Quickly locate who has access to a particular site and view its properties without juggling between browser tabs and admin centers.
• Delegate granularly: Empower non-admin users to use Explorer without elevating their native privileges. Assign custom roles by selecting your desired features and ease admin load.
• Explore hybrid SharePoint: View the architecture across both SharePoint Online and on-premises SharePoint servers (Subscription Edition, 2019, 2016, and 2013).