Alternate solutions for automatic workflow history clean up – MOSS 2007

By default in MOSS 2007, workflow task history list values are being cleanup/deleted every 60 days, so we can’t audit data based on workflow history list, this is very known concern for SharePoint.

Here are some links which talks about different workaround for automatic workflow history cleanup: 

http://blogs.technet.com/b/officeasia/archive/2010/11/28/workaround-for-the-situation-that-sharepoint-auto-cleanup-job-deleted-workflow-history.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424956(office.12).aspx

http://vspug.com/drewdevo/2008/08/27/workaround-for-missing-workflow-history/

We can also go with custom solution in which we can design database structure for storing workflow history data. Then from database we can populate and retrieve data to display into OOB workflow history page.