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Enterprise Reporter 3.5 - Release Notes

Quest® Enterprise Reporter 3.5.0

Quest® Enterprise Reporter 3.5.0
These release notes provide information about the Quest® Enterprise Reporter release.
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About Quest Enterprise Reporter 3.5.0
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New features
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Enhancements
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Resolved issues
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Known issues
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System requirements
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Overview of Enterprise Reporter communications and required credentials
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Product licensing
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Getting started with Enterprise Reporter 3.5.0
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Globalization
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About Us

About Quest Enterprise Reporter 3.5.0

Enterprise Reporter provides a unified solution for data discovery and report generation. Using the Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager, administrators can easily configure and deploy discovery jobs to collect and store data. Once the data has been collected, the Report Manager allows users to produce reports that help organizations ensure they comply with industry regulations and standards, internal security policies, monitor hardware and software requirements, and many other reporting requirements.

Enterprise Reporter 3.5.0 is a minor release, with enhanced features and functionality. See New features and Resolved issues.

New features

New features in Enterprise Reporter 3.5.0:
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NTFS discovery scopes page improvements
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Performance enhancements for Exchange Online discoveries
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Active Directory discovery and reporting for managed service accounts
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Active Directory discovery and reporting of user attributes related to usage and requirement for Kerberos
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Active Directory discovery and reporting of service principal names for domain users
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Active Directory discovery and reporting for fine grain password properties
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Azure Active Directory discovery and reporting for users that are flagged as risky
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Computer discovery and reporting for Microsoft Store Applications
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Additional information collected on Windows updates history for computer discovery and reporting for Hotfixes
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Additional information collected for SharePoint Online collection
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SQL Server discovery and reporting of additional SQL server attributes including SQL Server Service Pack, case sensitivity, and service account
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SQL Server discovery and reporting of SQL Server jobs including information about job run type, status, and job schedule
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Configuration Manager What's New dialog and notification displays discoveries that need review and reconfiguration based on new features
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Discovery Manager Duplicate Discovery option creates new discoveries with similar configuration
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Schedule discovery View Calendar option displays what is scheduled to run on each day of the month
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Scheduled discoveries and reports now observe daylight saving time
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Report Manager Show Preview option controls the preview of a report while editing
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Report Manager Import Layout option imports the report layout from an existing report
New reports

The following new reports are added under Active Directory | Health Check:

Active Directory
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Active Directory Permissions - Dangerous permissions delegated
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Active Directory Permissions - Domain Controller Owners
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Active Directory Permissions for Account (Everyone)
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AdminSDHolder Permissions
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Domain Accounts (Users and Groups) with SID History Attribute Not Empty
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Domain Groups and Members (Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access)
Computer
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Computer Services on Domain Controllers (Print Spooler)
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Domain Computers Having Constrained Delegation
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Domain Computers Having SID History
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Domain Computers Having Unconstrained Delegation
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Domain Computers whose sAMAccountName Does Not End In a Dollar Sign
Group
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Privileged Domain Groups and Members
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SID History Auditing Group available in Domain (Migration in Progress)
User
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Active Directory Permissions - Delegations for Accounts that cannot be resolved
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Built-in AD Administrator Account Usage
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Domain User Accounts that are Sensitive and Cannot be Delegated
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Domain Users who do not require a password
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Domain Users who do not require Kerberos Pre-Authentication
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Domain Users with weak DES encryption enabled
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Golden Ticket Mitigation - Last Password Change for krbtgt account
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Privileged Accounts that are Sensitive and Cannot be Delegated
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Privileged Accounts Vulnerable to the Kerberoast Attack
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Privileged Accounts with Unchanged Passwords that Logged In
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Privileged Accounts that have Not Logged In
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User Account(s) that have Constrained Delegation
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User Account(s) that have Unconstrained Delegation

 

The following new report is added under Computer:

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Server Features
See also:
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Enhancements
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Resolved issues
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Known issues

Enhancements

The following is a list of enhancements that are implemented in Enterprise Reporter 3.5.0.

 
Table 1. Customer requested enhancements
Enhancement
ID
Issue ID

Collect additional attributes for SQL Database users

753

 

Collect if a drive is encrypted (Win32_EncryptableVolume)

935

3373582

Export the errors from the results of a discovery

1794

2454722

Set CC and BCC e-mail addresses for scheduled reports

1803

2528918

Improve Layout tab: suppress automatic display of report preview; add ShowPreview button

1808

2536729

Collect additional attributes for Hotfixes

1824

2554024

Collection of additional attributes for computer discovery Windows updates

1824

2554024

Add option to suppress warning notifying the user that the ER server has been restarted

1851

2611869

Export all objects in the discovery results

1870

2701430

Exclude a list of objects from discovery using an import option

1880

2714742

As a discovery admin I can specify multiple domain controllers per AD discovery (Domain Controller Pool)

1894

 

Sort jobs on the Manage Discoveries page

1982

 

Collect Managed Service Accounts and Group Managed Service Accounts

2765

 

Collect new Microsoft Store Applications when collecting installed software

10529

 

Collect and report on active scheduled tasks on computers. This information is not available via WMI extension.

19517

4187150

Collect Fine Grain Password Policy attributes for domain users

120143

4413877

Add option to deploy nodes using alternate credentials

121491

4432599

Collect additional attributes for SQL Servers

121919

4434492

Exclude a list of objects from discovery using an import option

130682

2714742

Collect service principal name for users

131232

 

Select UTC or local time zone when scheduling

131674

504863

Collect Managed Service Accounts and related membership

131877

 

As a reporting user I can run the Managed Service Accounts report

131878

 

Collect SQL Server information on database jobs

152362

4434492

As a reporting user I can report on user fine grain password policies

155372

 

Collect Kerberos related attributes from Active Directory

155377

 

Collect Is Trusted for Delegation and Is Trusted to Authenticate for Delegation attributes

159582

4506999

As a reporting user I can run a report Bitlocker Information

162547

 

Issues collecting DFS shares with NTFS discoveries

172034

4581797

During an AD discovery the load is spread between several DCs to reduce failure rate

177209

 

As a discovery admin I can specify multiple domain controllers per AD discovery (Domain Controller Pool)

177210

 

Ability to skip the login page (Configuration Manager and Report Manager) - add an option to open automatically

222623

2705891

Collect additional attributes for SharePoint Online

236412

 

More detailed error message for attributes that cannot be collected when extending Active Directory attributes

239404

 

Error while extending AD attributes - attribute is in an unsupported format

239404

4821433

Collect additional attribute for Azure Virtual Network Information report

245833

 

Add include and exclude ability for site collections in SharePoint Online collector

251288

 

 
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