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SharePoint Admin Tools in SPO Scout

Practical tools for SharePoint Online admins, in a side panel on the site you have open: permission reports, library analysis and comparison, copy and cleanup tools, and exports. Built for interactive, day-to-day work rather than scheduled or tenant-wide automation. Items marked Pro need a Pro license.

Library Analysis

See how a library is built without writing PowerShell: item and folder counts, folder structure, properties, columns, content types and views.

  • Document & folder counts
  • Folder structure analysis (every level with Pro)
  • Site & library properties extraction
  • Columns, content types, and views metadata

Use case: Perfect for auditing library configurations before migrations, documenting current structures for compliance, or troubleshooting metadata inconsistencies.

Permissions & Security

Run SharePoint permission audits from your browser: every library, list, folder and file in a site with unique permissions, and who has access to each.

  • Permission reports for a whole site, down to item level
  • Every folder and file with unique permissions
  • Look up one user’s access on the site and its lists
  • Group membership expansion (Pro)
  • Which libraries and lists inherit, and which have unique permissions
  • Scan a library for sharing links and remove them in bulk (Pro)
  • Reset unique permissions to inherit (Pro)

Use case: Essential for compliance officers and IT administrators responding to security audits, investigating data access concerns, or cleaning up permissions after organizational changes.

See the SharePoint permissions report →

Copy & Transfer

Replicate SharePoint configurations across sites and libraries without manual recreation. Copy columns, views, and even entire library structures between sites.

  • Copy columns between libraries (Pro)
  • Transfer view configurations (Pro)
  • Copy SharePoint pages across sites (Pro)
  • Recreate entire library structures (Pro)

Use case: Ideal for standardizing library templates across departments, or setting up new team sites that need to match existing configurations.

Copy a SharePoint page to another site →

Comparison Tools

Quickly identify differences between SharePoint libraries, views, and content types. Stop manually checking configurations one-by-one.

  • Compare library columns
  • Compare content types & fields
  • Compare view configurations
  • Compare folder structures (Pro)

Use case: Perfect for troubleshooting configuration differences, validating migrations, or auditing against organizational standards.

Validate a migration by comparing libraries →

Library & View Management

Take control of SharePoint library visibility and versioning from one central place. Handle tasks that usually require PowerShell or SharePoint admin center access.

  • Hide current library/view (Pro)
  • Manage hidden libraries (Pro)
  • Manage hidden views (Pro)
  • Scan & set version limits (Pro)
  • Publish minor versions in bulk — scan up to 2,000 files for drafts and publish them as major versions in one run, optionally keeping each file’s original Modified date and Editor so the audit trail is not rewritten. Checked-out files are listed separately (Pro)
  • Recycle bin recovery — find everything a specific person deleted, across both recycle-bin stages, and restore it in one action (Pro)
  • Edit Metadata — set column values on one item, a folder or a whole library without changing Modified, Modified By or the version number (Pro)

Use case: Great for cleaning up old team sites, managing storage costs by adjusting version limits, or handling large-scale SharePoint environments.

Export & Reporting

Export permission audits to CSV, PDF or JSON for stakeholders, auditors and compliance teams (Pro), and keep an action history of what you ran.

  • CSV export for permissions (Pro)
  • JSON/PDF export (Pro)
  • Action history with timestamps (5 most recent on Free, 20 on Pro)
  • Copy to clipboard
  • Summary statistics

Use case: Essential for compliance reporting, security audit documentation, sharing reports with non-technical stakeholders, or maintaining governance records.

Storage Breakdown

See what is using storage in a document library: file types, version history, folder-level usage and large files. The free plan runs one scan a day on the first 200 files.

  • Total library storage usage
  • File composition by type
  • Version history vs current file storage (Pro)
  • Top storage-consuming folders
  • Large file detection
  • Find duplicate files (Pro)
  • PDF and CSV export for storage reports (Pro)

Use case: Perfect for migration preparation, governance reviews, storage quota management, and troubleshooting performance issues.

Reduce storage by controlling version history →

Ready to get started?

Install free and upgrade when you need more.

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