Hi All, we have number of site collection,sites and sub sites. In that we have to delete unused sites(not site collection for this we have a default settings in central admin). How to know the unused sites(not site collections)? For this any third party tool is there please advise us. Thirumal Rao Dage

You can configure site usage report in SharePoint to find unused site. For other options, refer to the following post http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/0070c115-9ca1-4860-b550-f032b6c03910--Cheers

Hi sorry. Given link describes about unused site collections. But we need sites and sub sites. Please give clear suggestion. Later: (13 mins later) My question is we have 30 plus site collections.Each site collection having number of sites and sub sites. Here all site collections are using, but in site collections some sites and sub sites are not using. So that we need to find out those unused sites and sub sites. Thirumal Rao Dage

There is no easy way to find out an unused subsite. However, if you can write a Object Model code then you can get the information from the changelog. Changelog in sharepoint, stores information about any changes at site, website, list, etc levels. Please refer to link to get more idea on how to achieve this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff408266.aspx If you are a farm administrator and are not wiling to write that piece of code, then you can also try to query out content database to serve your purpose. Note - Don't write any sql query to insert, update or delete any rows on sharepoint database.

There is no easy way to find out an unused subsite. However, if you can write a Object Model code then you can get the information from the changelog. Changelog in sharepoint, stores information about any changes at site, website, list, etc levels. Please refer to link to get more idea on how to achieve this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff408266.aspx If you are a farm administrator and are not wiling to write that piece of code, then you can also try to query out content database to serve your purpose. Note - Don't write any sql query to insert, update or delete any rows on sharepoint database.

To FIND subsite is not simple and MOSS 2007 doesn't offer you nothing for default (follow Soumyadev suggestion). Remember that you can delete automatically unused site collection from a Web application following few simple rule (offer with MOSS 2007). CheersFabioA

You can set properties listed below which are available in site level properties and it will delete unused sites automatically. This can be manually set or through site creation event receivers. Also, based on last modified date you can create timer jobs to clear unused sites. UnusedSiteNotificationPeriod UnusedSiteNotificationBeforeDeletion SendUnusedSiteCollectionNotifications AutomaticallyDeleteUnusedSiteCollection Last content modified date Try this tool http://spm.codeplex.com/ which is an object model explorer and very usefull in managing sharepoint contents.