The flagship project management system from Microsoft, SharePoint is almost essential for document management. Not only does the software make remote work opportunities much more realistic, especially for small to mid-sized businesses. But there are also a variety of tools designed to make the most of the impressive capabilities SharePoint has to offer.

• Virtual Identity Server - This organization tool lets you share and collaborate on any files found within the web portal environment.
• SharePoint Health Monitor - It's difficult to get a quick look at your overall system health without some help. ManageEngine's Free SharePoint Health Monitor offers a dashboard view with details on your CPU, disk space, and memory available on every SharePoint server. Further details in tool show service status, response time, cache memory, and buffer cache hit ratio.
• CardioLog Analytics - A free tool for systems with less than a million page views every month, IntLock's CardioLog gives you full visibility into employee activity. Admins can check which sites employees use, how long they use them, and which sites are underused.
• SharePoint Code Analysis Framework (SPCAF) - Primarily for developers, this tool is designed to analyze solutions and code input in the system. This gives a crucial stop point before code goes into production and potential problems occur. While there is a standalone application available, SharePoint Code Analysis Framework can also be integrated with Visual Studio.
• ViewPoint - If you ever find yourself with a huge amount of users on SharePoint and want to get them organized, ViewPoint can help. This tool outputs a clean table view of which users have what permissions on a site. This tool is very valuable if you ever need to adjust permissions or perform a user audit. ViewPoint can be used in the dashboard or print out reports for review.
• Network Discovery from McAfee - If you're tasked with taking inventory of your network (and checking for previously deployed servers), Network Discovery can help. This tool scans your network and displays an HTML report of all servers on your network, as well as which version of SharePoint they're running.

If you're looking for more information on SharePoint or any Microsoft products, Microsoft has recently released a vast collection of resources in PDF form, including step by step guides and eBooks for SharePoint setup and applications. Along with helpful tools, these guides will help you supercharge your SharePoint software and get the most out of it for your small business.