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Enterprise Reporter 3.2.2 - Configuration Manager User Guide

Product Overview Understanding Discoveries Creating Discoveries
Step 1. Create the Discovery Step 2. Choose what to include in your discovery (Scopes) Step 2a. Choose scopes for your discoveries
Choosing your Active Directory Scopes Choosing your Computer Scopes Choosing Your Exchange Scopes Choosing Your File Storage Analysis Scopes Choosing Your Microsoft SQL Scopes Choosing Your NTFS Scopes Choosing Your Registry Scopes
Step 2b: Choose scopes for your Office 365 discoveries Step 3. Schedule your Discovery Step 4: Review the summary
Managing Discoveries Configuring the Configuration Manager
Starting the Configuration Manager Finding Answers and Getting Help An Overview of Enterprise Reporter Communications and Credentials Required Logged In User Details Setting Up Your First Collection Computers Modifying your Deployment Improving the Performance of Your Discoveries What does the status of a node or cluster indicate? Using the Credential Manager Changing the Credentials used by the Enterprise Reporter Server Configuring Global Settings Global Discovery Settings
Troubleshooting Issues with Enterprise Reporter Appendix: PowerShell cmdlets Appendix: Encryption Key Manager Appendix: Log Viewer

Exchange Discovery: Include Scopes

You can include Domains, Organizations, Exchange® Servers, in your scope. For full information on using the browser to add scopes, see Using the Browser to Include and Exclude Scopes .

To explicitly include objects in your Exchange scope
1
Click Add.
2
In the treeview, locate the desired object and select it.
To select multiple objects, press Ctrl during selection.
For more information, see Filtering in the Browser .
3
Click Include to add to your selected scopes list.
4
Click OK. 
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NOTE: When you add a domain, its child domains are not included - each domain must be explicitly added. When you add an OU or container, children are not included.

Exchange Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions

Exclusions refine the inclusions you have defined. You can do this optional step in conjunction with inclusions. For full details, see Refining Your Scope with Exclusions .

To explicitly exclude objects from your selected scope
1
Click Add.
2
Expand the treeview to locate the object you want to exclude.
You can press Ctrl to select multiple objects.
3
Click Exclude. 
 

Exchange Discovery: Decide what to collect from any server in the discovery

You can collect a variety of information from the computers in your discovery. Basic information from the root organization (the organization name and full LDAP path) is always collected.

The following table outlines the additional information that can be collected. Collecting additional information impacts discovery performance. Options with a high performance cost will slow discovery performance more than options with a medium or low performance cost.

 

Table 11. Exchange Discovery: Optionally collect information for the following objects
Option
Notes
Performance Cost

Mailboxes

Collects basic information for Mailboxes, Public Folder Mailboxes, and Mailbox Stores.

 

Medium

•
Mailbox subfolders

If collecting mailboxes, you can enable this option to collect subfolders of Exchange mailboxes.

High

•
Mailbox delegates

If collecting mailboxes, you can enable this option to collect mailbox delegates on Exchange mailboxes. This option excludes Mail-Enabled Users, Mail Contacts, Administrators, and Distribution Groups.

High

Mail-Enabled Users

Collects basic account information for Mail-Enabled Users.

Low

Mail Contacts

Collects basic account information for Mail Contacts.

Low

Public Folders

Collects basic information for Public Folders and, where applicable, Public Folder Stores.

Medium

•
System Public Folders

If collecting public folders, you can enable this option to collect system public folders.

High

Distribution Groups

Collects basic account information for Distribution Groups.

Medium

Permissions

Collects permissions on Exchange objects such as mailboxes, public folders, organizations, administration groups, and servers. This option excludes permissions for Mail-Enabled Users, Mail Contacts, Administrators, and Distribution Groups.

Medium

•
Mailbox AD permissions

If collecting permissions, you can enable this option to collect mailbox Active Directory permission information, including mailbox subfolder permissions.

High

•
Mailbox Exchange permissions

If collecting permissions, you can enable this option to collect mailbox Exchange permission information.

High

•
Mailbox folder permissions

If collecting permissions, you can enable this option to collect mailbox folder permission information.

High

•
Public folder permissions

If collecting permissions, you can enable this option to collect public folder permission information.

High

Nested group members

Recursively collects the members of any groups found in the Exchange discovery.

High

The following options further refine how collection tasks are handled.When collecting additional attributes, especially ones with a high performance cost, consider enabling these performance options to help improve collection performance.

 

Table 12. Exchange Discovery: Performance Options
Option
Notes

Performance Options

When both sub-options are selected, one task per mailbox server is created. One additional task per object type (except Mailboxes) is also created.

When neither option is selected, one task is created for the entire collection.

•
Create multiple tasks per server

One task per mailbox server is created. One additional task that contains all other object types is also created.

•
Create multiple tasks for each object type being created

One task per object type is created. For example, if there are Mailboxes, Distribution Groups, Mail-Enabled Users, Mail Contacts, and Public Folders, 5 tasks are created.

Mailboxes

 

•
Include system delegates

If collecting mailboxes, you can enable this option to collect all system delegates. Disabling this option will decrease collection time by excluding system delegates with the following account names from the collection:

•
Domain Admins
•
Enterprise Admins
•
Organization Management
•
Exchange Trusted Subsystem
•
Exchange Servers
•
System
•
Administrator

Public Folders

 

Permissions

 

•
Only collect explicit permissions

If collecting permissions, you can enable this option to collect permission information only for Exchange objects with explicit permissions.

The following options determine how target computers are resolved during discoveries.

 

Table 13. Discovery Resolution Options
Option
Notes

Resolution Options

 

•
Allow a configurable number of seconds for a target computer to respond to a ping request

Pings target computers at collection time to determine the existence of target computers on the network before processing tasks.

•
Resolve target computers with disjoint namespaces

Verifies the existence of target computers with disjoint namespaces by using their DNS host names and, if that fails, by using their NetBIOS names.

Choosing Your File Storage Analysis Scopes

File Storage Analysis scopes determine what information will be collected when you run the discovery. There are several steps you should take to properly design your discovery.

See also:

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File Storage Analysis Discovery: Include scopes
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File Storage Analysis Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions
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File Storage Analysis Discovery: Decide what to collect from any server in the discovery
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File Storage Analysis Discovery: Configure NAS Host Devices
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