Centralized SharePoint Site Analysis with a Dedicated Web Part

This SharePoint web part provides administrators and site owners with a centralized way to analyze content, permissions, and potential issues across multiple SharePoint site collections. Its guided start screen introduces the available features, helping new users understand the application and begin their analysis quickly.

Analyze Multiple Site Collections Centrally

The web part can evaluate several site collections from a single interface. Users first select the SharePoint sites they want to include. A dropdown list then makes it possible to switch between the configured sites and examine each site collection individually.

This centralized approach reduces the need to open and inspect every site separately. It also gives administrators a consistent view of important site information across their SharePoint environment.

Review Site Pages and Detect Broken Links

The first tab presents an overview of the pages in the selected site. In addition to basic page information, the web part identifies pages that are checked out, use unique permissions, or are waiting for approval. This helps site owners recognize unpublished content, exceptional permission configurations, and pending publishing tasks.

A dedicated content-analysis function also scans pages for broken links. The results can be opened in a detail dialog, allowing users to identify invalid references and take targeted corrective action. This feature supports ongoing content quality and prevents visitors from encountering outdated or inaccessible links.

Inspect Permissions and Resolve Group Memberships

The integrated permission dialog displays the access configuration for an individual item or an entire library. It shows which users and groups have access and resolves group memberships so that the effective user assignments can be reviewed more transparently.

Permissions can also be queried for a specific user or group. This is particularly useful when administrators need to verify whether a person has access to selected content or investigate how that access was granted.

Review Built-in Microsoft Entra ID Roles

The Built-in Entra ID roles tab provides an overview of users assigned to built-in Microsoft Entra ID roles. By making these assignments available within the same analysis interface, the web part adds useful identity and role information to the broader SharePoint review process.

Analyze Lists, Libraries, and Older Content

A second tab focuses on the lists and document libraries of the selected site. These containers can be checked for older content, unique permissions, and checked-out items. To locate outdated content, users specify a reference date and start the query. The result helps identify information that may require review, archival, or deletion.

The Checked-out items function searches the site's lists and libraries for content that is currently checked out. The result view shows the number of matches, while a detail dialog provides the complete list of affected items. Administrators can therefore quickly find documents or list items that may be blocking updates, publishing processes, or collaboration.

Conclusion

The web part combines several important governance and maintenance tasks in one central SharePoint interface. It supports the analysis of site pages, links, permissions, role assignments, lists, libraries, older content, and checked-out items across multiple site collections. As a result, administrators and site owners gain greater transparency and can identify content, access, and publishing issues more efficiently.