SPFarmDiscovery - Export your Farm to XML!

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Every run into a large SharePoint farm where nobody really knows how big and/or where stuff is? Ever care to see where site collections maybe growing deeper and faster than what you'd hope for? Ever curious to discover sites deep in your hierarchy but it is a painstaking process to drill down through the UI? If you answered YES to any of these questions, you should check out this tool. The tool crawls your entire farm and compiles XML from of the hierarchy that it discovers. This leaves you with a nice document you can consume programmatically, or simply scroll through to see your web applications, site collections, and sites!

If you like this export but you need something robust and with a UI, I recommend checking out DeliverPoint, a farm wide permissions management tool that I've used and am really impressed with.

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

The program also compiles nice pieces of meta data, including size, number of webs, and number of lists. That meta data is also bubbled up to parent nodes, giving a good eye into where your disk space is being consumed!