Can anyone suggest a good way to get Usage Reports from SharePoint thatgo beyond the default reports as these are only good for 30 days ofdata? Any freeware or 3rd party products that you can recommend wouldbe great.
You can see those reports in SharePoint Designer for more than 30 days.The UI limits them to 30 days, not the data.
I wrote small prog to dump them on a daily basis and then import themusing SSIS, you can do some nice trending then.
Another option is to run the IIS logs through a log parser such as logpareser oranalog.
MAPILab provides a very good SharePoint usage reporting solution: MAPILab Statistics for SharePoint. Detailed reports on visitors, documents, lists, search and more. You can try free trial version or online demo: http://www.mapilab.com/sharepoint/statistics/.It will allow you to view and analyze data of any time period.