Revisiting this, we may now be going down a completely different path (which I feel little, if any, regret about). We're looking at a third party solution which would do exactly what I want it to do. The only problem is the price, and the fact that only the Enterprise license provides the required API. On the other hand I think I can justify the price tag as to build anything more than simple, static reports ourselves, let alone coming close to what this one provides, would take six months at a
Due to some, ahem, technical difficulties with getting the custom usage provider to actually trigger (registering wasn't a problem, and it did intercept the event, just never actually triggered it's own handler so I essentially spent several days in order to write a solution which comprehensively breaks usage logging) I've been re-evaluating my approach to this.
New method will still involve logging organisation IDs along with users (any direct memberships get logged with the user, chains are
One of the first tasks I've been faced with in my new job is to get some sort of SharePoint usage reporting working. At first I thought this would be nice and easy, after all, SharePoint comes with a nice set of usage reporting which could simply be plugged in to some custom reporting modules - easy, yes?
No. The problem comes in that they want reporting for groups of users. These groups are currently ill-defined, conceptual groupings, so part of the first challenge is to deal with that by ge
As I'll shortly be setting up my own blog/news site for this sort of thing this is somewhat temporary, but I need somewhere to write rather than forgetting what I plan to put down.
A few people are probably already aware that in September I'm planning to carry out a sponsored cycle ride from De Panne to Sluis and back again, with a total distance of 100 miles (the most direct route is a little short, but we'll be going North of Bruges on the way out and South on the way back to bring it up).
After a hectic couple of weeks, I've finally started looking at the file management thing again. I think this should handle the actual moving and renaming of the file themselves (as yet untested, I plan to test it tonight when I get home). The updating of links in PowerPoint files is currently on hold until either I find a reliable fix for the PowerShell localization problem with Office, or I get around to using PowerShell 2 instead. I'm assuming its fixed there.
For anyone interested in the
Someone I know has recently asked me if it's possible to create a tool for them.
What they want is something which'll iterate through several thousand PowerPoint files in a directory tree, renaming them and moving them to a new tree with different subfolders depending on name, and then go through the slides themselves in order to update any OLE links which they contain.
Originally I was hoping to do this in PowerShell and making progress. The problem came when I discovered that PowerShell
