Microsoft® Usage Import and Report Writer are usually used to produce reports of site activity on a regular basis. The site’s operations manager may want to see a report of the previous day’s total site activity every morning at 8 a.m., while the managing editor may require a report of visitors by content area every Friday at noon.
Maintenance tasks, such as compacting databases and updating metadata, will also need to be done on a regular schedule.
To make it easy to have tasks performed automatically when they are needed, the Scheduler tool is provided so that any task can be scheduled to occur automatically.