Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed

Evaluating Policies

After you create an organization’s policies and categories, you’ll want to evaluate the policies to determine which of your servers and databases are out of compliance. There are three management points that can be leveraged to evaluate policies:

For the first alternative, right-click on a server, server object, database, or database object in SQL Server Management Studio and select Policies. In the Evaluate Policies page displayed, check the policy or policies you want to evaluate and click the Evaluate button.

For the second ...