How to configure Usage Analysis Processing on a Web server that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

To turn on Windows SharePoint Services usage logging in an Office SharePoint Server farm, you must first turn on Usage Analysis Processing in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and then turn on Advanced Usage Analysis Reporting service in Shared Services Administration. To do this, follow these steps:

1.Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.
2.On the Central Administration page, click Operations.
3.On the Operations page, under Logging and Reporting, click Usage Analysis Processing.
4.In the Logging Settings section, click to select the Enable logging check box.
5.In the Log file location box, type the location where you want to store the log file.The default location for the log file is \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extension\12\Logs.
6.In the Number of log files to create box, type a number between 1 and 30. In general, use a number that is one to three times the number of database servers in your server farm, with a maximum number of 30 log files.
7.In the Processing Settings section, click to select the Enable usage analysis processing check box.
8.Under Run processing between these times daily, specify the range of times to start the usage analysis log processing.In the Start box, select the earliest time of day to start running log processing. In the End box, select the latest time to start running log processing.
9.Click OK.

Refferance:-
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825541

How to configure Usage Analysis Processing on a Web server that is running Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

Usage analysis processing is set up through SharePoint Central Administration. To do this, follow these steps:

-Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint Central Administration.
-Under Component Configuration, click Configure usage analysis processing.
-In the Logging Settings section, click to select the Enable logging check box.
-In the Log file location box, type the location where you want to store the log file.The default location for the log file is c:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\STS.
-In the Number of log files to create box, type a number between 1 and 30. In general, use a number that is one to three times the number of database servers in your server farm, with a maximum number of 30 log files.
-In the Processing Settings section, click to select the Enable usage analysis processing check box.
-Under Run processing between these times daily, specify the range of times to start the usage analysis log processing.In the Start box, select the earliest time of day to start running log processing. In the End box, select the latest time to start running log processing.
-Click OK.

Refferance:-
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825541

Move, Lock, and Delete Site Collections

Microsoft has recently released an update to the Central Administration site that makes it easy to move a Site Collection between different Content Databases. The Batch Site Manager can be very handy if you need to break up your content across multiple Content Databases – possibly sitting on different SQL Servers.

Batch Site Manager is a feature that is designed to be used by SharePoint farm administrators to manage and administrate bulk operations that involve moving, locking or deleting one or more site collections within a single Web application. To access the Move, Lock, and Delete Multiple Site Collections page, click the Move, Lock, and Delete Site Collections link located on the Application Management page of Central Administration. The same tool also allows you to lock and delete site collections:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508852(TechNet.10).aspx

Download Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

Move site collections
Lock site collections
Delete site collections
Batch Site Manager files

How to rename a SharePoint Server machine name.

Renaming a MOSS server is tough job. If anything goes wrong along the way chances are that you need to reconfigure your whole MOSS environment.

Here are the steps to take, and the order in which to take them if you want to rename a server that has MOSS already installed and configured on it:

1.Change each alternate access mapping for your MOSS/WSS deployment in Central Administration:

-Open Central Administration, "Operations" Tab, "Alternate access mappings" link -Modify each mapping item to reflect your newly chosen server name

2.Use stsadm.exe to invoke the "renameserver" command option:

-Open a command prompt window

-cd "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN"

-stsadm -o renameserver -newservername -oldservername

3.Rename your Server via Change Name Operation in Windows Server 2003: Start Menu Control Panel System, "Computer Name" tab, "Change" button.

4.Input your new server name

5.Reboot the server NOW.

6.After reboot, open command prompt
-cd C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN -stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin -password -iisreset /noforce

7.Check all application pool identities in IIS, update where the old machine name is still there.

8.If you already have a search index drop this, and rebuild it.

Your server is now renamed.

Limit SharePoint Designer to Certain Users

For this post, I am going to concentrate on using security permissions to limit access to SPD.

Below is a quick way to limit only certain users the ability to SPD.
-Out-of-the-box, users who have Full Control and Contribute security permissions can open SPD and make changes.
-Assuming you want only users with Full Control access to have access to SPD, the easiest way is to turn off access to the site from SPD for users under the Contribute permission level.
-Open the site
-Select Site Actions > Site Settings.
-Under the “Users and Permissions” group, click the “Advanced permissions” link.
-Select Settings > Permission Levels from the toolbar.
-Click on the Contribute link.
-Under Site Permissions, uncheck the “Use Remote Interfaces - Use SOAP, Web DAV, or SharePoint Designer interfaces to access the Web site.” option.
-Click OK

The issue with the above steps is now any user with Contribute access cannot use SPD. You may have some users who you still want access to SPD but do not want to give Full Control to. For that scenario, you could create a new permission level.

-Open the site
-Select Site Actions > Site Settings.
-Under the “Users and Permissions” group, click the “Advanced permissions” link.
-Select Settings > Permission Levels from the toolbar.
-Click on the Contribute link.
-Scroll to the bottom and click the “Copy Permission Level” button.
-For the Name, type in “Contribute (With SPD)” (without the quotes).
-For the Description, type in “Can view, add, update, and delete. With SPD support.” (without the quotes).
-Under Site Permissions, check the “Use Remote Interfaces - Use SOAP, Web DAV, or SharePoint Designer interfaces to access the Web site.” option.
-Click Create

Now the out-of-the-box Contribute permission level can contain all the users who need contribute access but no SPD. For those users you want to give SPD access to, they can be added to the “Contribute (With SPD)” group. One caveat is if you have other applications access the SharePoint web services for the site, they will no longer work.