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Can Webtrends analyze Microsoft SharePoint log files?

Products

Webtrends Analytics 9.x
Webtrends Analytics 8.x

Issue

Can Webtrends analyze Microsoft SharePoint log files?

Resolution

Microsoft SharePoint generates two separate log file types. The W3C-compliant web logs generated by SharePoint can be analyzed in Webtrends without issue, because they are nothing more than standard IIS logs.

The other set of logs, however, cannot be analyzed by Webtrends; attempts to do so will result in analysis failure. These are space delimited files, and formatted as shown in the example below:

XXX11X111_hykjjkj2jkj 5/12/05 www.siteaddress.com/folder/page.html? \domain\user ??????????? ???????????