SharePoint Use Cases

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July 23rd, 2007 at 3:32 am

Though i have configured portal usage reporting as per the below mentioned article

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/5233cf43-6a8f-40cb-9014-0724600e7e381033.mspx?mfr=true

still my usage report is blank….
what else do i need to do besides this ?

2 | toni

July 26th, 2007 at 8:08 pm

Well, that is all you need to configure for use analysis.

Data will not be displayed right away, but after usage analysis processing.

If you report is still missing make sure that all SharePoint services are running and that there are not reporting or services related errors in your event log.

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August 2nd, 2007 at 1:18 pm

Hi, we got another problem with the usage analysis tools. Our works council does not want stats on which user visits a site to be displayed in the site usage report (due to privacy reasons).

This means that we only want to have Pages, OS, Browser and Referrerer Url in the dropdown menu and remove user. An alternative would be to have the user name made anonymous somehow in the view.

Apperantly the logging process and usage analysis processing are deeply integrated into Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.dll and sharepoint.dll so I see no direct way to change it.

Does anyone have an idea for a workaround?

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September 14th, 2007 at 6:01 pm

I don’t know your configuration, but logging in with the SSP application pool account didn’t do the trick for me. What did work, though, was logging in with the SSP service account.

Perhaps you’re running your app pool and SSP service with the same account?

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September 14th, 2007 at 6:23 pm

This was bugging me, so I played around a little more. The “workaround” (actually not a workaround, since this is how things should work) is to grant the account under which you want to operate the “Manage Usage Analytics” permission (from “Personalization services permissions”) from within the SSP. Once you do so, the 403 permission errors will disappear when trying to change the advanced processing checkbox.

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October 3rd, 2007 at 1:50 pm

THANK YOU SEAN!!! The September 14th post was what worked for me! Our site had a person who was the original SSP and only his name was set up for this permission. Once I added our System Account and gave it the permissions shown, it allowed me to check the box!!! THANK YOU!!!

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November 16th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

THANKS Sean – I was getting a 403 Forbidden error until I allowed myself(!) Manage Usage Analytics permission.

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November 16th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

THANKS Sean – I was getting a 403 Forbidden error until I allowed myself(!) Manage Usage Analytics permission.

9 | SharePoint Usage

July 18th, 2008 at 12:04 am

When it comes to SharePoint Usage Reports – see “CardioLog” , it’s like webtrend, but specfically designed for SharePoint, and a free version of the solution is about to be released.

Uri,
Intlock.

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July 30th, 2008 at 8:52 am

Hi All,
I am able to see the Search Usage Reports, and am trying to figure out if there is a programmatic way to retrieve these reports and display them using SSRS. Any light on this front will be appreciated.

Thanks!

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July 31st, 2008 at 7:01 pm

@Shubham: Haven’t tried that, but there are some classes that might help. Check your WSS/SharePoint SDK.

Here is sample code:
SPSite oSiteCollection = SPContext.Current.Site;
SPSite.UsageInfo oUsageInfo = oSiteCollection.Usage;
Int64 int64DiscussionStorage = oUsageInfo.DiscussionStorage;
Int64 int64Storage = oUsageInfo.Storage;
Int64 int64Bandwidth = oUsageInfo.Bandwidth;
Int64 int64Hits = oUsageInfo.Hits;
Int64 int64Visits = oUsageInfo.Visits;

12 | lds1ph

September 14th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

Thanks to post#8 above. Been looking for a solution for this issue. It works.