Pearls of MOSSy Wisdom

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Let's be honest, more often that not, there are two questions that you often have to ask yourself in the world of SharePoint Administration:  Who moved my cheese? and Who is hogging all the disk space in my Site Collection?  While I can't help you with your cheese, I can offer up a suggestion for monitoring disk space on your MOSS Farm.

UPDATES HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE APPLICATION
please check the ZIP in the Downloads to be sure you have version 1.6. 

And yes, v2 Beta is feature complete and availiable for download as well.  Feel free to try it out, too!

SharePoint, well, MOSS, offers up a solution to analyze the usage of your farm with the _layouts/storman.aspx page.  But this has two drawbacks: First, this is only available if you have quotas turned on in your Web Application.  Second, it doesn't give you much information on a site-by-site basis.  And since it only lets you view 100 items at a time, copying the data to Excel to do a little self-analysis isn't possible.

So what does one do?  This is where the Space Monitor comes in.  With this application, administrators can now look at a Web Application and see what sites (and subsites and lists and libraries) are using the most space.

Below is a screenshot of the application.  Click the image or CLICK HERE to go to my site for the SharePoint Space Monitor.