3. Viewing Information Management Usage Reports
To view reports after they are
generated, browse to the library location you provided and select the
report you want to see. If you have Microsoft Excel installed, the
report opens in Excel as shown in Figure 12; otherwise, it opens in the browser as a generic XML file.
Policy usage reports generally have the following tabs.
Introduction Lists the site collection that the report is for and the date it was generated.
Report PivotTable Provides a summary of the number of items in each site and lists which are subject to each policy.
Policies Lists each policy by name.
Usage Provides detailed data on the lists in each site as well as the number and percentage of items in each list.
Administrators and records
managers might want to review how many policies are in place in a Web
application and how many documents are affected by them. This
information can help administrators identify which sites are using
policies and which are not. It can also help compliance officers
determine how effectively the compliance guidelines that have been
formulated into the file plan are being implemented. For example, if a
compliance officer notices that no policies are being applied to a
particular document library in the repository, then it may turn out that
data in that library is not being purged in a timely manner.
3.1. Viewing the Policies Report
The Policies report
provides a list of policies defined in the report generated for the site
collection within the Web application that you chose on the Information
Management Reports page. The Policies page provides general information
about the policies that have been configured. The general information
about each policy is displayed using the columns shown in Figure 13.
3.2. Viewing the Policy Usage Report
The Policy Usage report
provides a list of policies defined in the report generated for the
site collection within the Web application that you chose on the
Information Management Reports page. The Policies Usage page provides
detailed information about the information management policies that have
been configured along with the number of items that are using those
policies. The detailed information about the policies is displayed using
the columns shown in Figure 14.
All of these reports are
helpful to the compliance manager and can be used to ensure that
policies are applied at the proper locations throughout your SharePoint
implementation.