SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 provide several out-of-the-box (OOTB) SharePoint reports to help organizations comply with legal or governmental regulations, monitor the health of SharePoint on a regular basis, provide usage activity insights, analyze growth trends & plan for storage resources etc. A few areas where OOTB reports fall short is the depth of information that it provides depending on the user role, robustness, centralized management & reporting (e.g., reporting permissions), item level analysis of data etc.
Some of the major challenges or hurdles involved in SharePoint reporting & audit is as follows:
The SharePoint reporting solution presents insights into events and activities that take place in SharePoint farms on a day-to-day basis and collates them as useful information for SharePoint Administrators, Site Administrators and Site Content Owners to take action.
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