Yes, you heard that right, free! Skip PowerShell and paying a hefty price tag, SharePoint Essentials Toolkit 2025 release is now free! Download the free SharePoint permissions reporting tool in less than 10 minutes.
In this article, I will show you what you can get with the new SharePoint Essentials Toolkit 2025 release for free.
This article will provide SharePoint Admins, Site Owners and even SharePoint Developers, with a tool they can use without the burden of cost :), wow wouldn’t it be great if life was like that!
To get your free “SharePoint Permissions Reporting and Management Tool“, you just need to sign up for a free license key to the Community Edition of the SharePoint Essentials Toolkit by visiting here and clicking “Download Community Edition (FREE)”.
All you need is a valid organization email address. No marketing or spam, we do not submit your information to marketing companies.
We (Cognillo) are providing this tool at no cost, so that every SharePoint administrator and user has a tool they can use, and if they like it, may opt in to purchase the Enterprise or Professional level features.
Below, is a screenshot of the SharePoint Permissions reporting tool. As you can see, it can do much more than just permission reports. You can also migrate SharePoint content for free.
What do I get in the free version?
- SharePoint Permissions Reports
- Copy SharePoint Lists and Libraries
- Site Navigation Broken Link Reports
- SharePoint Site and List Inventory Reports
See this comparison chart to see which SharePoint reporting and management features are free and which have limited access.
Need a permissions report?
In this guide following, I will walk you through the steps of generating a SharePoint site permissions report using the SharePoint Essentials Toolkit.
First, you must download the SharePoint permissions reporting and management tool.
Second, you must sign up for the license by going here and clicking “Download Community Edition (FREE)”
The report will include users who have access to your SharePoint sites, within Microsoft Teams, sharing links, and other vital information that is very difficult to get when using PowerShell alone.
- Launch the tool and click to Add New Connection
- Enter the required information to add a connection to SharePoint
- Once a connection profile is created, click Next and you can search for your SharePoint sites which you want to report permissions against.
- Select one or more sites from the Home Page Dashboard (see screenshots below), then click ‘Permissions’ button, then “Permissions Report”
- Select your options and click “Run Now”
- That’s it! Click Export if you would like to export your report to Excel
Here is an example output from the free SharePoint permissions tool we are giving away:
And here is what it looks like when exported to Excel:
Free SharePoint Administration and Management Tool
The product is not only free, but it gives you much more than just SharePoint Permission Reports. You can also get Site Analytics for free at the site level, plus copy content and get site and list level inventory reports. With this completely free SharePoint administration and management tool, you will be sure to help make life easier for SharePoint Site Owners/Admins, when a user needs a report out of SharePoint.
What are the pre-requisites?
The SharePoint Administrators tool requires Microsoft .NET Core to be installed. The installer will automatically install this for you if missing.
Hope you enjoyed this article and will enjoy the free SharePoint permissions management tool we are offering.
Cognillo Team
Currently working at Cognillo (https://www.cognillo.com), he has helped architect and develop SharePoint Enterprise products for customers such as the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, U.N. Security Council of Netherlands, Australian Government, U.S. Dept of Treasury, U.S. Dept of Justice, Canadian Dept of Defense, Scotiabank, JPMorgan CHASE Bank, Intel, Ford Motors, Microsoft, NASA, DARPA, SNC Lavalin, Penguin Books, and more.
He is a proud father of 2, and when he has any spare time, he loves to paint portraits of his kids.
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