I had a look at implementing MS IT Site Life Cycle Management as an alternative to AvePoint products, or the previously blogged-about MS IT Site Delete Capture utility:
http://www.codeplex.com/governance/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4622
Unfortunately, this product just is not going to work for us. It is possible that we could wrangle it into shape with enough time, and an ability/desire to [...]
“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.