J. Greg's Brain Corral

“Site Delete Capture LE” from Microsoft IT… cool idea, tricky to implement.  Here is the problem:
Attempts to delete a site result in “Access Denied” error messages in the site delete log files.  No corresponding events found in the Security Event logs, nor are we able to detect any “ACCESS DENIED” messages using procmon.exe.  What’s up? 
Well, [...]

Hey look… Microsoft IT has released some cool tools for SharePoint management:
http://governance.codeplex.com/
Possibly of most use would be:
http://www.codeplex.com/governance/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14351
A utility to automatically backup sites upon deletion actions.
And:
http://www.codeplex.com/governance/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4622
Site Lifecycle Management – a potential replacement for the hated “Site Expiration” process we have in place at present.