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MessageStats 7.8.1 - Administrator Guide

What is MessageStats? MessageStats Information Sources Using the Console Interface Creating a Connection to Exchange Creating Gathering Tasks Default Gatherings Extending Gathering Tasks Configuring Audits Setting MessageStats Server Properties Setting Configuration Properties Setting Exchange Organization Properties Setting Exchange Server Properties Setting Task Execution Server Properties Setting Task Default Properties Compressing Tracking Log Files Using the MessageStats Reports Console Database Management Appendix A:Microsoft ASP.NET Configuration Issues Appendix B: Gathering Task Dependencies Appendix C:Troubleshooting Permission Problems

MessageStats Reports Features

The following features are included in MessageStats Reports:

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The Web Report Wizard allows you to configure and generate reports, and provides report parts that you can add to and arrange on reports.
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The Graph Wizard allows you to create custom graphs from the data sources that you select.
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Predefined role-based security settings allow you to control who can view reports and create custom reports.
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A subscription service allows you to deliver reports through email, web sites, file shares, or ftp (file transfer protocol) site.
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Tooltips that display when you hover over column headings or over items in graphs can reveal detailed information.

Using the console, you can perform the following tasks:

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Group, insert, append, remove, and sort fields on reports. On-page Quick Filters allow you to change relevant report parameters quickly and easily to better focus your report.
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Display report data in bar graphs, line graphs, and pie charts.
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Export reports in Microsoft Excel, text (as either comma-separated values or tab-separated values), XML, Word file, HTML, or MHTML.

Setting Security for Reports

MessageStats Reports includes a flexible solution for report security which allows you to assign certain permissions to users, and enable different views of the reporting tree depending on user needs and security requirements.

MessageStats Reports supports two types of security:

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Role-based security which is inherent in MessageStats Reports. For more information, For more information, see Role-based Security.
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File-based permissions security which requires NTFS manipulation of your network. For more information, For more information, see File-System Based Security.

Role-based Security

Role-based security provides an initial layer of security for your reports. Three local security groups, each with specific permissions, are created when MessageStats Reports is installed:

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Web Report Administrators
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Web Report Authors
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Web Report Users

All three security groups have access to the report site and to all reports. The roles (Administrator, Author, User) provide different permissions that can restrict the ways reports can be manipulated.

The default membership to these security groups places administrators in the Web Report Administrator role, and all others in both the Web Report Authors and Web Report Users roles.

To customize the memberships, you can add or remove users from the default groups. Administrators can specify which users belong to which roles by modifying their membership in these local groups. The role-based security scheme is easier to manage than the file-system permissions security scheme, as the changes to these security groups immediately affect all reports.

 
Table 1. Actions associated with each security role.
Action
User
Author
Administrator

Accessing the site

Exporting reports

Saving report settings in My Reports folder

Saving report settings in any folder

 

 

Creating Custom Reports

 

Saving Custom Reports in My Reports folder

 

Saving Custom Reports in any folder

 

 

Creating new folders in My Reports folder

Creating new folders in any folder

 

 

Copy folders or report within My Reports folder

Copy folders or reports to and within My Reports folder

 

Copy folders or reports to and within any folder

 

 

Move folders or reports within My Reports folder

Move folders or reports from any folder to My Reports folder

 

 

Move folder to and within any folder

 

 

Rename folders or reports in My Reports folder

Rename folders or report in any folder

 

 

Delete folders or reports in My Reports folder

Delete folders or reports in any folder

 

 

Edit folder descriptions in My Reports folder

Edit folder descriptions in any folder

 

 

Enable subscriptions for reports in My Reports folder

Enable subscriptions for reports in any folder

Set Filter Defaults

File-System Based Security

In addition to the Web Report security roles, you can enable an additional level of security using a file permissions-based scheme. At a minimum, the role-based security scheme allows all roles to view all reports.

Alternately, a permission-based scheme can restrict the reports to be available to some users. Explicit permissions are applied on a per-group or per-user basis, and assigned to individual files, folders, and reports. You can configure the settings so that different groups, such as executive management, the help desk, and Exchange administrators can see different report nodes and reports.

System administrators can create more sophisticated security schemes by modifying the file permissions for reports and folders in the file system on the web server. By default, report files and folders reside in the following location:

c:\inetpub\wwwroot\MessageStatsReports\Reports

By restricting the reports that are available to all users, you can protect sensitive data from users that do not require that information. Users connecting through a web browser can only see report files and folders for which they have read access permissions, and folders for which they have list permissions in the file system.

Security Scenarios

Permission-based security provides more detailed control than role-based security, but it requires some action on an administrator’s part. MessageStats does not provide the functionality to manipulate the permissions on files and folders. Use Microsoft tools to create the appropriate Windows NT File System (NTFS) security changes.

Refer to Microsoft Windows tools procedures for detailed information about implementing NTFS security scenarios. For information about determining an appropriate security scheme for your implementation, contact Quest Support.

 
Table 2. Possible security implementation for reports.
Implementation
Details

Restricting access to standard report folders

Using Microsoft Windows tools, remove the Web Reports Administrators, Authors, and Users roles from the folder you want to restrict.

Create new security groups and add the appropriate members to those groups.

Add your newly-created security groups and their access rights to the report folder you want to restrict.

Restricting access to newly-created report folders

Using Microsoft Windows tools, remove the Web Reports Administrators, Authors, and Users roles from the folder you want to restrict.

Create new security groups and add the appropriate members to those groups.

Add your newly-created security groups and their access rights to the report folder you want to restrict.

Restricting access to individual standard reports

Using Microsoft Windows tools, remove the Web Reports Administrators, Authors, and Users roles from the report you want to restrict.

Create new security groups and add the appropriate members to those groups.

Add your newly-created security groups and their access rights to the report you want to restrict.

Restricting access to individual Custom Reports

Using Microsoft Windows tools, remove the Web Reports Administrators, Authors, and Users roles from the report you want to restrict.

Create new security groups and add the appropriate members to those groups.

Add your newly-created security groups and their access rights to the report you want to restrict.

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