Security and Administration / Microsoft (Tools & Add-ins, Controls & Components) - Top Reviews

Create full featured NT Services. More than just "running as a service" Desaware NT Services Toolkit allows you to build services that support all NT service options and controls. Services hold a distinct advantage over applications in the area of system monitors, background tasks, business objects, etc. Create your own Control Panel applets for service control and other purposes.

Manage access to SharePoint lists. Column Permissions allows you to manage access to SharePoint list content at column level. Permissions can be assigned for individual users and for SharePoint groups.  Column Permissions settings are effective in forms and list views, as well as in SharePoint Alerts, RSS, Datasheets and even during exporting to Excel.

Reset your SharePoint passwords without administrator help. Virto Password Reset Web Part allows any user logged in to the SharePoint portal (using Form Based or Active Directory Authentication) to reset their password without contacting an administrator. The new temporary password will be shown online or sent to an email box according to the web part configuration.

Allow SharePoint Active Directory or FBAP users to change passwords on their own without administrator help. Virto Password Changer Web Part for SharePoint 2007 enables Active Directory (AD) users and users with general accounts (FBAP) to change their passwords when they are logged onto a SharePoint Site. This web part is helpful if there are a lot of AD accounts in your system, and users need to change their passwords from time to time due to security or other reasons. Remote AD users can also change passwords without any difficulties.

Create custom event sources for logging events into the NT/2000 event log. The Event Log Toolkit overcomes the generic "VB runtime" event logging, along with its limited descriptions and lack of event categories. With it you can create self-registering, custom event sources that have no dependencies, allowing your application to send events to the Windows NT/2000 event log using an unlimited number of event categories and containing clear descriptions of each event.

Create a full featured service in minutes using .NET, even debug your service using the .NET environment. Although the .NET framework supports the creation of simple services, the NT Service Toolkit allows you to create more robust and complex services in minutes. Features include: easy development and debugging, automatic COM/DCOM/Remoting support, advanced thread management, self installing executables and the ability to create control panel applets. Easy migration path from the COM based edition.

Log information to multiple destinations. Kellerman .NET Logging Library is an easy to use, high performance logging component for .NET. It can log information to files, databases, a console or the event log. It includes features to facilitate defect tracking by logging error messages that include all property exceptions. It supports all .NET project types including Winforms, ASP.NET and Web Services. The logger can be used with any .NET language including VB.NET and C#.

A SharePoint Web part that manages item-level permission. SharePoint Permission Workflow offers a productive way for IT administrators to manage item-level permissions among all the users and user groups by streamlining the whole process.With SharePoint Permission Workflow, item-level permissions are able to be automatically assigned to selected users and user groups for all items in a SharePoint list at one time. Meanwhile, administrators are also empowered to apply item-level permissions for the existing items within a list with only one click.

Define granular access rights for your SharePoint lists and libraries. SharePointBoost Column/View Permission allows administrators to manage access to all website content by setting field-level and view-level permissions for any list in a SharePoint site. With it, you can designate which users and groups have access rights to column contents, a particular list view, or even the ability to enter or change data in a particular list field, thereby enabling you to securely store both public and confidential corporate data within the same list.

Password Change & Expiration tool for SharePoint. SharePointBoost's Password Change & Expiration tool can help prevent password expiration by notifying users prior to password expiration. The logged in user can easily update his personal password by going through the main user menu in SharePoint decreasing the need of the system admin. With this product proactively notifying users of password expiration, True Costs of Downtime (TCD) will drastically be reduced, saving your company thousands of dollars. It also allows users to change their own password essentially reducing the workload of the system administrator.