SharePoint Storage Explorer User Guides
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Step-by-step guides for the day-to-day surfaces inside SharePoint Storage Explorer. Most administrators spend their time across three views: the site overview to spot growth, the top 100 files to find cleanup targets, and the document library view to drill into a specific site.
Choose where to start
- First scan in progress? Read light vs deep scan so you understand what to expect from the results.
- Want the tenant-wide picture? Start with site overview.
- Need to identify cleanup targets? Go to top 100 files and file-type breakdown.
- Investigating a specific site? Use the document library view and file browser.
- Producing a board-ready summary? See reporting.
All user guides
- Light vs deep scan - when to use each mode and what they cost in time.
- Site overview - tenant-wide ranking by storage.
- Document library view - per-library storage breakdown.
- File browser - navigate the file tree with size and sort.
- Top 100 files - the biggest files in the tenant.
- File-type breakdown - storage by extension.
- Reporting - exportable summaries.
What feeds Squirrel
If you already use Squirrel for SharePoint archiving, SharePoint Storage Explorer is the discovery layer in front of it: identify the sites and file types that are wasting quota, then point Squirrel's archive policies at them. The two products work together well - SharePoint Storage Explorer tells you what to archive, Squirrel does the archiving.
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