DeliverPoint Central Administration

There are certain DeliverPoint configuration settings that affect the whole farm and are available from the DeliverPoint Configuration link on the Site Actions menu on the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration web site:

*You can use the other two options on the Site Actions menu, to complete permission management tasks.

The DeliverPoint Configuration page is displayed.

The DeliverPoint Configuration page contains the following options:

• Forest Settings
• Treeview Settings
• Threshold Settings
• Permissions
• TimerJob Settings
• Database Settings
• Configuration Settings
• Documentation
  

Forest Settings

Use this option to manage Active Directory forests and domains that you wish to crawl, together with the credentials you wish to use. The Forest settings page consists of one section Forest list, where you can modify the following settings:

• Registered forest names. This list contain all those forests that are to be interrogated when the LightningTools.DeliverPoint.AuthStoreInterrogation SharePoint time job runs. By default only one entry is listed, Current Forest. If you need to remove a AD forest you previously registered, select the forest and then click Remove. You cannot delete Current Forest.
  
  
• Register new forest. To register a new AD forest to interrogate, complete the following:
  
  
  • In the Forest name text box, type the forest name – you must enter a DNS name.
  • In the Account name text box, type the AD username, which should be used to perform the specified forest (all it subdomains) users/groups enumeration.
  • In the Account Password text box, type the password.
  • Click Add.
    
    
• Domain Exclusions. Use this list box to type all domain names that should be excluded during authentication interrogation. Valid values are domain names and NetBIOS names.
  
  
• Registered domain global catalogs. Add specific global catalog[s] to be crawled.
  
  
• Excluded FBA providers. List FBA providers to be excluded from crawls.

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Treeview Settings

Use this option to configure the DeliverPoint treeview that is displayed on the DeliverPoint dashboard. The DeliverPoint treeview settings page consists of four sections:

• Display Segments. In the Segments text box, type the maximum number of tree nodes to display at the Site Collection and Site level. When the number of objects exceeds this level, the treeview is segmented. The default value is 100.
  
  
• View Restriction. You can select one of two options that allows you to restrict the treeview so that it is only displayed for Site Collection Administrators:
  
  
  • Yes, restrict.
  • No, not restricted (default).
    
    
• Hide not accessible tree nodes. Use this to hides high level tree nodes if current user has no permissions over the specified node scope. If you display the high level nodes, this can cause performance issues if there are large amount of sites/webs in crawling scope. You can select on of the following two options:
  
  
  • Show.
  • Hide (recommended). (default)
    
    
• Web Application Restriction. Restrict the tree view to the current web application.
  
  
  • Show current Web Application Only.
    
    
• Show lists/libraries in treeview and in report. Use this to manages the visibility of lists and libraries in the treeview and their items in discovery report. You can select any combination of the following two options. By default no option is selected.
  
  
  • Show Lists and Libraries In Report.

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Threshold Settings

Use this option to update the DeliverPoint threshold settings, which are used when displaying the Properties usage report in the DeliverPoint dashboard results pane. The DeliverPoint Threshold Settings page contains the following sections:

• Wait Threshold. The interval, in milliseconds, the SharePoint interrogator timer jobs waits before it requests the next site (web). The default is 100 milliseconds.
  
  
• Web Application Thresholds. Segments Web Applications into Small, Large, New, and Old thresholds. Small and Large sizes are in MB. The defaults are 1, 3 MB, respectively. New and Old are specified in days. The defaults are 10 and 100 days, respectively.
  
  
• Managed Path Thresholds. Segments Managed Paths into Small, Large, New, and Old thresholds. Small and Large sizes are in MB. The defaults are 1, 3 MB, respectively. New and Old are specified in days. The defaults are 10 and 100 days, respectively.
  
  
• Site Collection Thresholds. Segments Site Collections into Small, Large, New, and Old thresholds. Small and Large sizes are in MB. The defaults are 1, 3 MB, respectively. New and Old are specified in days. The defaults are 10 and 100 days, respectively.
  
  
• Site Thresholds. Segments Sites into Small, Large, New, and Old thresholds. Small and Large sizes are in MB. The defaults are 1, 3 MB, respectively. New and Old are specified in days. The defaults are 10 and 100 days, respectively.
  
  
• List Thresholds. Segments Lists into Small, Large, New, and Old thresholds. Small and Large sizes are in MB. The defaults are 1, 3 MB, respectively. New and Old are specified in days. The defaults are 10 and 100 days, respectively.

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Permissions

Use this option to update the settings for the permissions module. The DeliverPoint Permission settings page contain two sections:

• Replacement User. Use the user account people picker to specify the account to be used to replace the last site collection administrator on a site collection when DeliverPoint is removing the last site collection administrator via a “Delete” or “Dead Account Removal” operation. If this field is left blank, the account of the user using the DeliverPoint operation will become the new, last site collection administrator for the site collection(s) in question.
  
  
• Permissions module operators. Use the Operator accounts people picker to specify one or more users. DeliverPoint will show and proxy management of permissions throughout the farm on behalf of these users. The user(s) entered are unrestricted when using DeliverPoint. However, the user(s) are not given access to any content from this designation. Any Operator must have access to at least one SharePoint site in order to navigate to DeliverPoint.
  
  
• Permissions module auditors. Use the Auditor accounts people picker to specific one or more users. These users are allowed read only permissions to run permission reports via DeliverPoint. regardless of their permissions on SharePoint objects

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TimerJob Settings

Use this option to configure the three timer jobs. The DeliverPoint timer job settings page contains the following sections:

• SharePoint crawl method. Use to specify the SharePoint crawler method – Full or Incremental. Incremental crawl is recommended, if you have a large SharePoint farm. The Incremental option is the default select option when you first install DeliverPoint. As you can only use incremental crawls once a full crawl has successfully completed, you must first select Full and run the SharePoint timer job before reselecting Incremental. Crawling SharePoint content can take a considerable time.
  
  
• Crawl resuming. Select which crawls must be resumable.
  
  
  • Authentication store crawl
  • SharePoint crawl
    
    
• Logging level. Use to control logging level for all timer jobs. You can select on of the following two logging levels:
  
  
  • Deep: log info, warning and error messages.
  • Errors. log only error messages. (default)
    
    
• Exclusions List/Library Types. Use to select list types to be excluded from permission scans. By default lists created from any list type will be crawled. You can select one or more of the following list types: NoListTemplate, GenericList, DocumentLibrary, Survey, Links, Announcements, Contacts, Events, Tasks, DiscussionBoard, PictureLibrary, DataSouces, WebTemplateCatalog, UserInformation, WebPartCatalog, ListTemplateCatalog, XMLForm, MasterPageCatalog, NoCodeWorkflows, WorkflowProcess, WebPageLibrary, CustomGrid, SolutionCatalog, NoCodePublic, ThemeCatalog, DataConnectionLibrary, WorkflowHistory, GanttTasks, Meetings, Agenda, MeetingUser, Decision, MeetingObjective, Textbox, ThingsToBring, HomePageLibrary, Posts, Comments, Categories, Facility, Whereabouts, CallTrack, Circulation, Timecard, Holidays, IMEDic, ExternalList, IssueTracking, AdminTasks, HealthRules, HealthReportss, InvalidTypes.
  
  
• Report Generation Settings Use this section to specify the default folder and the file name pattern for the scheduled permission reports.
  
  
  • Default Folder
  • Default File Name Pattern
    
    
• Jobs Viewing and Retention.
  
  
  • Default Job Retrieving Period (Days). Default is 60.
  • Job Retention Period (Days)
    
    
• Permission Change Log Viewing and Retention.
  
  
  • Default Permission Changes Retrieving Period (Days)
  • Permission Change Log Retention Period (Days)
    
    
• Jobs Rollback Settings.
  
  
  • Jobs Support Rollback by Default. Checked by default.

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Database Settings

When you install DeliverPoint, you are required to provide details so that a DeliverPoint database is created. On the DeliverPoint Database Settings page, the information that you provided when the DeliverPoint Configuration Wizard was run are used to pre-populated fields on this page.

Note: These settings may be altered in the event of a DeliverPoint database migration.

The DeliverPoint Database Settings page contains the following sections:

• DeliverPoint Database. This section consists of two text boxes:
  
  
  • Server: The server NETBIOS name of the SQL Server, where the DeliverPoint database is hosted.
  • Database: The name of the DeliverPoint database.
    
    
• DeliverPoint DB Account. This section contains two text boxes:
  
  
  • DB Account Name: The impersonation account, also known as the DeliverPoint Service Account, used to access the DeliverPoint database and interrogate the SharePoint databases via the SharePoint Object Model (OM). The service account requirements are listed in the section: Deploying DeliverPoint.
    
    
  • DB Account Password: The password for the DeliverPoint Service Account.
    
    
• Timeouts. Specify a time period (in seconds) to be used when connecting to database and executing queries.
  
  
  • Connection Timeout: Default is 30 seconds.
  • Command Execution Timeout: Default is 1800 seconds.

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Configuration Settings

Use this option to update license information and to provide supplemental database connectivity settings. The DeliverPoint Configuration Settings page contain the following sections:

• License. This section contains two text boxes, text about the number of days left if you are using a trial version of DeliverPoint and an Activate link:
  
  
  • Current License.
  • Farm ID.
    When you click Activate, the Licensing of Product DeliverPoint 2010 is displayed, where you can activate you DeliverPoint license key.
    
    
• Store configuration. This section is obsolete and will be removed in future releases.
  
  
  • Use Farm Bag. (default).
  • Use Secure Store.

Documentation

Online Documentation. Click this link to view online documentation for DeliverPoint.

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