SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

In SharePoint 2010 the site collection Web Analytics  reports could be viewed by end users or business owners via the ‘View Web Analytics’  permission.

With SharePoint 2013 and usage reporting move into the Search Service Application this is much more difficult unless you want to grant business owners full control on your site.

Recently we had to try and grant business owners the ability to read the usage reports without being sites owners, as this was impossible via permissions we had to look for another method.

After some searching I came across this excellent link from Mike Smith that shows how to save the central search reports back the SharePoint Server.

http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/run-sharepoint-2013-search-reports-from.html

I updated this to run and save all the site collection usage reports then upload the reports to a library in SharePoint, finally I set a daily task to run the report to create self service solution for end users.

Add-PSSnapin “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ea Continue

# Set the intranet portsl location
$WebURL = “http://intranet.corp/”

#This is the URL for site collection usage reports
$url = "http://intranet.corp/_layouts/15/Reporting.aspx?Category=AnalyticsSiteCollection"

# This is the path to write the reports to must exist on server running the script
$path = "D:\SearchReports\"

function Get-SPSearchReports ($url, $searchreport, $path)
{
  # function to run the usage reports and store locally on server
  # Usage reports ID’s must match the environment, use View source on the page _layouts/15/Reporting.aspx?Category=AnalyticsSiteCollection to get the ID’s

  # Usage Reports for Prod
  
   $Usage                   = "6bbf6e1c-d79a-45da-9ba0-d0c3332bf6e2"
   $Number_of_Queries         = "df46e7fb-8ab0-4ce8-8851-6868a7d986ab"
 
  # Search Reports forProd

  $Top_Queries_by_Day         = "06dbb459-b6ef-46d1-9bfc-deae4b2bda2d"
  $Top_Queries_by_Month       = "8cf96ee8-c905-4301-bdc4-8fdcb557a3d3"
  $Abandoned_Queries_by_Day   = "5dd1c2fb-6048-440c-a60f-53b292e26cac"
  $Abandoned_Queries_by_Month = "73bd0b5a-08d9-4cd8-ad5b-eb49754a8949"
  $No_Result_Queries_by_Day   = "6bfd13f3-048f-474f-a155-d799848be4f1"
  $No_Result_Queries_by_Month = "6ae835fa-3c64-40a7-9e90-4f24453f2dfe"
  $Query_Rule_Usage_by_Day    = "8b28f21c-4bdb-44b3-adbe-01fdbe96e901"
  $Query_Rule_Usage_by_Month  = "95ac3aea-0564-4a7e-a0fc-f8fdfab333f6"

  # set the file path and name
  $filename = $path + (Get-Variable $searchreport).Name + ".xlsx"
  $reportid = (Get-Variable $searchreport).Value

  $TTNcontent = "&__EVENTTARGET=__Page&__EVENTARGUMENT=ReportId%3D" + $reportid

  # setup the WebRequest
  $webRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)
  $webRequest.UseDefaultCredentials = $true
  $webRequest.Accept = "image/jpeg, application/x-ms-application, image/gif, application/xaml+xml, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-xbap, */*"
  $webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  $webRequest.Method = "POST"

  $encodedContent = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($TTNcontent)
    $webRequest.ContentLength = $encodedContent.length
    $requestStream = $webRequest.GetRequestStream()
    $requestStream.Write($encodedContent, 0, $encodedContent.length)
    $requestStream.Close()

  # get the data
  [System.Net.WebResponse] $resp = $webRequest.GetResponse();
    $rs = $resp.GetResponseStream();
    #[System.IO.StreamReader] $sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $rs;
    #[byte[]]$results = $sr.ReadToEnd();
    [System.IO.BinaryReader] $sr = New-Object System.IO.BinaryReader -argumentList $rs;
    [byte[]]$results = $sr.ReadBytes(10000000);

  # write the file
  Set-Content $filename $results -enc byte

}

Function Upload-Report($URL, $DocLibName, $FilePath)
{
# function to upload the locally stored reports to SharePoint
# Get a variable that points to the folder
$Web = Get-SPWeb $URL
$List = $Web.GetFolder($DocLibName)
$Files = $List.Files

# Get just the name of the file from the whole path
$FileName = $FilePath.Substring($FilePath.LastIndexOf("\")+1)

# Load the file into a variable
$File= Get-ChildItem $FilePath

# Upload it to SharePoint
$Files.Add($DocLibName +"/" + $FileName,$File.OpenRead(),$true)
$web.Dispose()
}

# delete anything in the d:\SearchReports folder
Remove-item D:\SearchReports\*

# run the reports

Get-SPSearchReports $url "Usage" $path
Get-SPSearchReports $url "Number_of_Queries" $path
Get-SPSearchReports $url "Top_Queries_by_Day" $path
Get-SPSearchReports $url "Top_Queries_by_Month" $path
Get-SPSearchReports $url "Abandoned_Queries_by_Day" $path
Get-SPSearchReports $url "Abandoned_Queries_by_Month" $path
Get-SPSearchReports $url "No_Result_Queries_by_Day" $path
Get-SPSearchReports $url "No_Result_Queries_by_Month" $path
Get-SPSearchReports $url "Query_Rule_Usage_by_Day" $path
Get-SPSearchReports $url "Query_Rule_Usage_by_Month" $path

# upload the reports

Upload-Report $WebURL "Audit Reports\Site Collection Usage" “D:\SearchReports\Usage.xlsx”
Upload-Report $WebURL "Audit Reports\Search" “D:\SearchReports\Number_of_Queries.xlsx”
Upload-Report $WebURL "Audit Reports\Search" “D:\SearchReports\Abandoned_Queries_by_Day.xlsx”
Upload-Report $WebURL "Audit Reports\Search" “D:\SearchReports\Abandoned_Queries_by_Month.xlsx”
Upload-Report $WebURL "Audit Reports\Search" “D:\SearchReports\No_Result_Queries_by_Day.xlsx”
Upload-Report $WebURL "Audit Reports\Search" “D:\SearchReports\No_Result_Queries_by_Month.xlsx”
Upload-Report $WebURL "Audit Reports\Search" “D:\SearchReports\Query_Rule_Usage_by_Day.xlsx”
Upload-Report $WebURL "Audit Reports\Search" “D:\SearchReports\Query_Rule_Usage_by_Month.xlsx”
Upload-Report $WebURL "Audit Reports\Search" “D:\SearchReports\Top_Queries_by_Day.xlsx”
Upload-Report $WebURL "Audit Reports\Search" “D:\SearchReports\Top_Queries_by_Month.xlsx”