Configure site usage reports in MOSS 2007

1 September, 2008 (09:07) | MOSS - Administration and Operation | By: GVK

1) Configure site usage reports in Central Administration
Go to, Central Administration > Operations > Usage Analysis Processing

Usage Analysis Processing

Usage Analysis Processing

On the Usage analysis processing page select the check box Enable logging in Logging Settings section
Enter the location of log file and the numeric value in number of log files to created:
Select the check box Enable usage analysis processing and select the Start and End time.

Clcik OK to save the configuration.

Enable Logging Settings and Processing Settings

Enable Logging Settings and Processing Settings

2) Configure site usage reports in Shared Services Administration (SSP)

Go to, Shared Services Administration (SSP)

Configure site usage reports in SSP

Configure site usage reports in SSP

Under section Office SharePoint Usage Reporting click on Usage reporting

On Configure Advanced Usage Analysis Processing page, under Processing Settings section Select the check box Enable advanced usage analysis processing

Under Search Query Logging Select the check box Enable search query logging

Configure Advanced Usage Analysis Processing in SSP

Configure Advanced Usage Analysis Processing in SSP

After enabling usage report in SSP, now activate the Reporting feature in site collection administrators

3) Activate reporting feature

Go to Site actions, click Site settings
On the site settings page, under Site Collection Administration section click on Site collection features
Click Activate button to activate Reporting feature.

Activate the reporting feature

Activate the reporting feature

To view site usage reports, go to Site Actions > Site Settings

If you are a site administrator, click on Site usage reports under Site Administration section

No problem, if you are not a site administrator, usage reports can be view by site collection administrator too, click on Site collection usage reports under Site Collection Administration section

To view the site usage reports

To view the site usage reports

Site usage summary

Site usage summary

Site usage summary

Site usage reports can viewed by site administrators, site collections administrators, SSP administrators and SSP site collection administrators in their respective area

Comments

Comment from Richard
Time December 3, 2008 at 8:49 pm

Usage reports are up and running and I can see the updated info and reports trough the “SpUsageSite.aspx” and “SpUsageWeb.aspx”, the problem being, I still get the old reports in Sharepoint Designer, the Last Update Date is not updated =/ any ideas?

Comment from satyam
Time March 24, 2009 at 4:46 pm

Hi,
Greetings.

Thank you for the post where you have explained all the steps required for viewing the usage reports.
My question is on form based authentication how and where will i be able to see the usage reports, would be thankful if you provide me the steps required.

Thanks,
Satyam…..

Comment from Vibs
Time May 14, 2010 at 11:12 am

i am new bie to sharepoint ….recenlty i was asked to configure usage statistics for more than 30 days…but, i could only see a result for the last 30 days. Could it be possible for me to have a result for more than 30 days…may be for 3-4 years? can you please enlist me the method to to that.?

Thanks in advance..

~Vibs

Comment from G Vijai Kumar
Time May 25, 2010 at 6:16 am

@ Vibs: Yes, out of box SharePoint shows the statistics for not more than 30 days, if you want to have statistics for more than that you have to go for custom solution please look it the CodePlex solutions http://hitcounter.codeplex.com/

Comment from shiva
Time June 6, 2010 at 9:47 am

HI Everyone..
Site usage Report was working earlier, now its not working..
Again i have done the same steps what has been shown, but still i cannot see the usage report for site and site collection..
Please Reply me urgent.

Thanks in Adv,
Shiva

Comment from Martin
Time August 12, 2010 at 8:15 am

Excellent guide but i am having a small problem that i really dont know how to get around, for the step on the Shared Services Administration page all i can see is a list of my web applications. There are no options to configure and nothing that i can see that has the office usage reports label. I cant seem to find this option anywhere. Help please?

Comment from G Vijai Kumar
Time August 12, 2010 at 8:52 am

@ Martin: I assume you are looking on page http:///_admin/managessp.aspx where you can see the list of web applications associated to SSP, you have to click on the default SSP, it will be like < your Shared Services name…..> (Default)

Comment from Martin
Time August 12, 2010 at 9:03 am

Now i feel stupid, one menu away. Got the option thank you. My reporting is now up and running

Comment from Sergiu
Time November 11, 2010 at 10:06 pm

If I have a customised search webpart but still want to use the usage reports, how can I do that?

Comment from G Vijai Kumar
Time November 12, 2010 at 3:52 am

@ Sergiu: Site usage report generates based on the site visits/hits, the report will generate even if you customize the search webpart

Comment from Sergiu
Time November 13, 2010 at 3:16 am

Vinjay,
When I said I customized, I meant I created a totally new webpart and doing a fulltext search myself. And any search does not show in the top searches collection usage report. I wanted somehow to be able to log somehow in the analytics so it shows inthe reports.
Thank you,
Sergiu

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