J. Greg's Brain Corral

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 [...]

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.