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# SharePoint Essentials Toolkit

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> On-premises Windows app for SharePoint admins with permissions management, auditing, reporting, and site health monitoring.
> 
> Verdict: Rated \*\*\*\* by 0 users. Top-rated for **Overall Quality**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of SharePoint Essentials Toolkit

\* Eliminates PowerShell scripting for permissions reporting and administrative tasks by providing a point-and-click interface that generates detailed permissions reports, clones user permissions, replaces one user with another, and removes a user from all sites without custom scripting.
\* Consolidates permissions management, broken link detection, content management, governance monitoring, and task automation into a single toolkit, removing the need for multiple third-party tools or server-side software installations.
\* Protects data privacy by processing and storing all data locally on the user's machine, with no data transmitted to or stored in the vendor's tenant.
\* Supports Copilot Readiness preparation by surfacing oversharing risks — including sharing links, unlabeled widely shared files, stale content open to everyone, and sites exposed to all users — so administrators can remediate data exposure before deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot.
\* Reduces over-permissioning risk through permissions reports that identify orphaned users, broken inheritance, and over-permissioned accounts, with the ability to fix permissions and sharing links directly from the report.
\* Scales across organizations of any size, from the free Community Edition covering up to 20 sites to unlimited-site, multi-tenant plans suited to large enterprises.
\* Automates recurring administrative work through scheduled reports and outcome-based tasks with auto-discovery of sites, job templates, change logs, and undo and retry capabilities.
\* Exports all reports to Excel or SharePoint and supports scheduled automated delivery, giving administrators audit-ready documentation without manual extraction.
\* Manages broken links across Office documents and modern pages with a full link inventory, broken link monitor, and find-and-replace functionality to maintain content integrity at scale.
\* Supports bulk operations — including bulk sensitivity label application, bulk item actions from reports, and list copying with version history and permissions — across unlimited SharePoint sites.
\* Covers SharePoint On-Premises environments (2013, 2016, 2019, Subscription Edition) alongside SharePoint Online, providing unified governance for hybrid deployments from a single tool.
\* Includes unlimited technical support and software assurance with paid plans, reducing the operational burden of maintaining governance tooling over time.
\* Accessible to users regardless of technical depth, lowering the skill barrier for SharePoint administration tasks traditionally requiring developer-level expertise.

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Cognillo

## Commercial Context

- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore and 4 more

## Features

- AI Copilot
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Active Directory Integration
- Activity Tracking
- Ad hoc Reporting
- Adaptive Learning
- Archiving & Retention
- Audit Management
- Audit Trail
- Authentication
- Automatic Backup
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Compliance Management
- Compliance Monitoring
- Configurable Workflow
- Cross-system Integration
- Customizable Reports

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- Chat

## Category

- [Other Business Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/3903/other-business-software/software)

## Related Categories

- [Other Business Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/3903/other-business-software/software)
- [Data Governance Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/473/data-protection/software)

## Links

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