Squadron Documentation
In this article we can explore the Documentation add-in of Squadron along with code.
What Documentation is
Documentation helps with documenting the SharePoint Farm and Application information.
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Who the Target Audience is
This tool is targeted for Architects, Administrators and Developers.
A SharePoint Professional can use the tool to capture information about the Customer SharePoint Farm. You need to run this in the SharePoint Farm Server.
How to run the Documentation add-in
Open Squadron then choose "Documentation" from the left panel then select the required items then click the "Execute" button. You will get the results as shown below.
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HTML Export
The tool provides HTML export of the results.
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After fetching the results, you can click this button to create the HTML report.
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After report generation, you can actually save the HTML file using a browser. By default the User’s Documents folder is the location of the generated file.
Code Behind
For those who are curious to know the code behind, please find it here.
Farm Servers codeprivate void Refresh_FarmServers()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
foreach (SPSolution s in SPFarm.Local.Solutions)
list.Add(new SPFarmSolutionEntity(s));
});
}
Services code
private void Refresh_Services()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
foreach (SPService s in SPFarm.Local.Services)
list.Add(new SPServiceEntity(s));
});
}
Service Applications code
private void Refresh_ServiceApplications()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
foreach (SPService s in SPFarm.Local.Services)
foreach (SPServiceApplication sa in s.Applications)
list.Add(new SPServiceApplicationEntity(sa));
});
}
Content Databases code
private void Refresh_ContentDatabases()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
SPServiceCollection services = SPFarm.Local.Services;
foreach (SPService service in services)
{
if (service is SPWebService)
{
SPWebService webservice = (SPWebService)service;
foreach (SPWebApplication webapp in webservice.WebApplications)
foreach (SPContentDatabase cd in webapp.ContentDatabases)
list.Add(new SPContentDatabaseEntity(cd));
}
}
});
}
Farm Solutions code
private void Refresh_FarmSolutions()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
foreach (SPSolution s in SPFarm.Local.Solutions)
list.Add(new SPFarmSolutionEntity(s));
});
}
User Solutions code
private void Refresh_UserSolutions()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
SPServiceCollection services = SPFarm.Local.Services;
foreach (SPService service in services)
{
if (service is SPWebService)
{
SPWebService webservice = (SPWebService)service;
foreach (SPWebApplication webapp in webservice.WebApplications)
foreach (SPSite sitec in webapp.Sites)
foreach (SPUserSolution s in sitec.Solutions)
list.Add(new SPUserSolutionEntity(s) };
}
}
});
}
Managed Paths code
private void Refresh_ManagedPaths()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
SPServiceCollection services = SPFarm.Local.Services;
foreach (SPService service in services)
{
if (service is SPWebService)
{
SPWebService webservice = (SPWebService)service;
foreach (SPWebApplication webapp in webservice.WebApplications)
foreach (SPPrefix p in webapp.Prefixes)
list.Add(new SPManagedPathEntity(p) });
}
}
});
}
Web Applications code
private void Refresh_WebApplications()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
SPServiceCollection services = SPFarm.Local.Services;
foreach (SPService service in services)
{
if (service is SPWebService)
{
SPWebService webservice = (SPWebService)service;
foreach (SPWebApplication webapp in webservice.WebApplications)
list.Add(new SPWebApplicationEntity(webapp));
}
}
});
}
Site Collections code
private void Refresh_SiteCollections()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
SPServiceCollection services = SPFarm.Local.Services;
foreach (SPService service in services)
{
if (service is SPWebService)
{
SPWebService webservice = (SPWebService)service;
foreach (SPWebApplication webapp in webservice.WebApplications)
{
foreach (SPSite sitec in webapp.Sites)
list.Add(new SPSiteEntity(sitec));
}
}
}
});
}
Sites code
private void Refresh_Sites()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
SPServiceCollection services = SPFarm.Local.Services;
foreach (SPService service in services)
{
if (service is SPWebService)
{
SPWebService webservice = (SPWebService)service;
foreach (SPWebApplication webapp in webservice.WebApplications)
foreach (SPSite sitec in webapp.Sites)
{
foreach (SPWeb web in sitec.AllWebs)
list.Add(new SPWebEntity(web));
}
}
}
});
}
Lists code
private void Refresh_Lists()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
SPServiceCollection services = SPFarm.Local.Services;
foreach (SPService service in services)
{
if (service is SPWebService)
{
SPWebService webservice = (SPWebService)service;
foreach (SPWebApplication webapp in webservice.WebApplications)
foreach (SPSite sitec in webapp.Sites)
foreach (SPWeb web in sitec.AllWebs)
{
foreach (SPList l in web.Lists)
list.Add(new SPListEntity(l));
}
}
}
});
}
Items code
private void Refresh_Items()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
SPServiceCollection services = SPFarm.Local.Services;
foreach (SPService service in services)
{
if (service is SPWebService)
{
SPWebService webservice = (SPWebService)service;
foreach (SPWebApplication webapp in webservice.WebApplications)
foreach (SPSite sitec in webapp.Sites)
foreach (SPWeb web in sitec.AllWebs)
foreach (SPList l in web.Lists)
{
foreach (SPListItem item in l.Items)
list.Add(new SPItemEntity(item));
}
}
}
});
}
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The information fetch is purely read-only using the Server Object Model. There are no- write operations for this add-in.
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If you wanted some more items or fields to be included in the Documentation then please let me know. I am happy to provide it. (I am even ready to create the SharePoint 2013 version of tool on demand.)
About Items
The last item "Items" will be fetching List items / Library documents information. This will be very-time consuming depending on the size of the farm. By default it is kept unselected.
What Squadron is
Squadron is a Free SharePoint Administration tool available at
sharepointcto.
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How to download Squadron
Squadron for SharePoint 2010 can be downloaded from the link below:
Dwnload Squadron for SharePoint 2010Squadron is built on Click Once deployment, so installation is simple and automatic updates are possible.
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References
Squadron for SharePoint 2010Summary
In this article we have explored the Documentation addin of Squadron. I hope this will be helpful for you in real-world scenarios.