subject: How Has Documentation Toolkit Made Life Easier For Sharepoint Consultants? [print this page] SharePoint consultants are now relying on Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint, which helps in automatically documenting all SharePoint farm configurations into a single and properly structured and formatted Microsoft Word document. It is possible for outsourced SharePoint development team to even view the different farm configuration settings through the software interface without having to export them to a particular document. It is possible for them to provide all the essential setting information in one place rather than collate or assemble information from different solutions.
The Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint also allows outsourced sharepoint development administrators to view and compare farms because it offers support in terms of tracking changes within a single farm or even when evaluate different farms. The tracking of the differences help administrators to simplify setting optimization and also locate the mis-configurations.
Documentation toolkit is of particular use to SharePoint consultants that are required to submit documentation for the farm, name of the server, the IPs, SharePoint specific settings, edition etc. In order to collate and gather all the information, it becomes tedious for the SharePoint consultants to search through the SharePoint settings and then write everything down in one single document. This particular approach was not at all flexible especially if someone else went ahead and reconfigured the farm. In such a case the information would again need to be updated, which means that the SharePoint consultants had to reevaluate and enter the updated information.
All these challenges had to be tackled and the best way of tackling them is through the Documentation Toolkit. Through this specific tool, SharePoint consultants can be rest assured that the documentation will be ready in few seconds and any kind of modifications or changes are automatically detected and added as part of the document. It is now possible for outsourced SharePoint development to easily select the level of details they want it to be delivered to the client.
That's not all, if the SharePoint consultants deploy the farm, which is not available on the Internet and is also not able to access it from outside; there is still a way to access the farm information. Outsourced SharePoint development professional can still carry the farm information and load it onto the personal PC for reviewing it later. Hence, it is not surprising that most SharePoint consultants are extremely happy and content with this Documentation Toolkit that makes their life easier.
Some of the core benefits that most SharePoint consultants never forget to highlight include:
* This Documentation Toolkit definitely helps in saving time for creating documentation, as it provides a number of ways and options to develop documents
* Outsourced SharePoint development professionals are also made aware of any changes through the notifications they receive
* SharePoint consultants can also easily access, view and monitor different trends over a period of time
* This Documentation Toolkit is so powerful that it helps in establishing different farms with the same configuration where it can be used for different roles including staging, production, departmental deployments etc.
