Enabling Site Usage Analysis on Sharepoint

Enabling Site Usage Analysis on Sharepoint is not as straightforward as it should be. This article explains the processs in detail. The version of Sharepoint is Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS) or Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0.

1. To enable Site Usage Analysis, go to "Site Actions" -> "Site Settings". Find the "Site Collection Administration" section and click on "Site collection usage reports".

At this point, if you can see the "Site usage summary" page, then all is good and you need not go any further.
If successful, you will see this window:


However, if you find an error message as shown below, then read on...
Error Message

Both Windows SharePoint Services Usage logging and Office SharePoint Usage Processing must be enabled to view usage reports. Please contact your administrator to ensure that these services are enabled.

2. If you encounter an error when navigating to the Site Usage screen, then browse to the Sharepoint Central Administration page. Click on Operations -> Services on server.


3.

If "Office Sharepoint Server Search" (or WSS Search) is not started, start it. If that option is not displayed and area 1 is disabled, then go to the next section, Otherwise, skip to step 5.

4. If section 1 in step 3 is not enabled, then you will have to reinstall Sharepoint. In case of MOSS, just reinstall MOSS not WSS, otherwise, reinstall WSS.
According to this Technet article, if the front-end Web installation option was chosen for MOSS or WSS install, the search service cannot be installed on the server.

If you choose the front-end Web installation option, you will not be able to run additional services, such as search, on the server.

Reinstall MOSS (or WSS) and choose the Complete installation and then go to Step 1.

5. From the Operations page, click on "Shared Services Administration".


6. Click on New SSP


7. Fill in all required information. Pay attention to the "Index Server" section, which should have an entry in the dropdown. If the index server was not started, or installed, the dropdown would have no entries and therefore, it would have been impossible to create a new Shared Service Provider. Create a new web application for SSP and create its site collection.

Finish creating the SSP and web applications for the MOSS/WSS sites.

8. Go to Operations -> Usage Analysis Processing and enable logging.


9. Go to the newly created SSP page and click on "Usage reporting".


10. Tick both boxes.


11. Go to main site collection page -> Site Settings -> Modify All Site Settings -> Site Collection Usage reports (see step 1).
You should now be able to see a summary page!

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