Implementing FSRM Filestore Reporting

A useful and often overlooked feature of the FSRM component is reporting. You can generate FSRM reports immediately (also known as interactive) or at a scheduled time. The latter causes FSRM to create reports on a weekly or monthly basis. FSRM defines several basic report types that you can use.

FSRM produces reports with a fixed layout that you cannot change. FSRM can return the same data contained in the HTML report but as an XML document. You can then use the XML document to create the report the way you need it.

Getting ready

This recipe uses FS1, a domain-joined host in the Reskit.Org domain, on which you have installed PowerShell 7 and VS Code. In the previous recipe, Implementing FSRM quotas, you have installed FSRM on FS1.

How to do it...

1. Creating a new FSRM storage report for large files on C:\ on FS1

   $NewReportHT = @{
     Name             = 'Large Files on FS1'
     NameSpace        = 'C...