SharePoint Reporting Solution
I've been clamoring for a SharePoint Reporting solution. Sure the SharePoint Usage reports are cute for the site administrator such as the search reports, and viewing the audit logs on a site. If you aren't even seeing site usage data this troubleshooting page might be helpful. Note there is the WSS usage processing AND the MOSS shared service for Usage processing that both need to be enabled... but what about farm reports?
Quest software - Capacity Manager for SharePoint (very interesting reports on Storage with a focus on SQL). There is a free trial. There are some interesting capacity reports, including growth and trending reports on the content databases with the capacity planner.
From their site: "Capacity Manager makes it easy for database administrators to manage SharePoint. The eye-catching reports provide graphs and charts on:
Here's a good verbose blog post on different ways to pull usage data from SharePoint. It's a bit dated, but there is some good mention of getting at it via FPRPC, SharePoint Designer, the OM, and the web UI.
I've got a call open with WebTrends to tell me "how to configure" WebTrends to work with WSS/MOSS. They tell me they have support for SharePoint, but it just needs to be configured. It's possible with nearly all web reporting usage products to give you the classic usage stuff (users, browsers, OSs, transfer, session lengths, etc..), but when you get into pages and paths through the site you'll find it's not what you need. This is where I'm hoping to see partners step up.
