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Enterprise Reporter 3.5 - Configuration Manager User Guide

Product Overview Configuring the Configuration Manager
Starting the Configuration Manager Finding answers and getting help Overview of Enterprise Reporter Communications and Credentials Required Using the Credential Manager Setting Up Your First Collection Computers (Nodes) Modifying Your Deployment Configuring Global Settings Customizing the Configuration Manager View
Understanding Discoveries Creating Discoveries
Step 1. Create the Discovery (Name) Step 2. Choose what to include in your discovery (Scopes) Step 2a. Choose scopes for your on-premises 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 cloud discoveries Step 3. Schedule your Discovery Step 4: Review the summary
Managing Discoveries Troubleshooting Issues with Enterprise Reporter Appendix: PowerShell cmdlets Appendix: Encryption Key Manager Appendix: Log Viewer

Product Overview

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Key Features of Enterprise Reporter
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Components of Enterprise Reporter
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Summarizing the Workflow

Key Features of Enterprise Reporter

Organizations worldwide are struggling to keep up with corporate policies, changing government regulations, and industry standards. Generating reports that prove compliance, and deciding what data to include, is a time consuming and difficult process. To meet compliance requirements or initiate IT best practices, organizations must know exactly what is in the IT infrastructure at any moment in time, how it is configured, and who has access to it. Quest presents Enterprise Reporter as a solution to these problems.

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

Using the Configuration Manager, you can:

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Configure your collection environment to minimize network traffic and optimize performance.
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Create discoveries to collect data that will be made available to the Report Manager:
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information about your Active Directory environment
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information about files and folders from domains, OUs, computers, NetApp and EMC filers, shares, and DFS shares
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information about the computers in your environment
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data from specified SQL Server computers, instances, and databases
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general and registry information from selected computers
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high-level summary information on file storage
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high-level summary information and permissions in your Exchange environment
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information about your Azure subscriptions, licenses, and service plans
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information about your Azure Active Directory environment
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information about your Azure resources
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information about files and folders in your OneDrive environment
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information about your Office 365 Exchange Online environment
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information about your Microsoft Teams in Office 365
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information about your Microsoft SharePoint Online environments
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Create cloud discoveries using Azure Active Directory Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled credentials
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Schedule discoveries to run automatically.
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Track the progress of discoveries, and pinpoint any errors in the collection.

Using the Report Manager, you can:

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Run reports on the data you have collected.
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Make predefined reports available to reporting users by publishing them.
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Create your own customized reports.
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Customize the appearance of your reports.
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Schedule reports to run when you need them.
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Publish reports to SSRS.
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Use the File Storage Analysis summary reports, with meaningful charts and graphs and the ability to drill down for more detailed information, to answer challenging administrative questions about file storage.
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Use the Exchange summary reports, with meaningful charts and graphs and the ability to drill down for more detailed information, to answer challenging administrative questions about your Exchange environments.
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Use the Exchange reports to monitor and update the access permissions of accounts in an efficient and timely manner to ensure mailbox information security.
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Use the OneDrive reports to answer questions about file and folder permissions in your OneDrive® environment.
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Use the Azure reports to answer questions about your Azure subscriptions, licenses, and settings.
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Use the Azure Active Directory reports to answer questions about your Azure Active Directory environment.
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Use the Azure resource reports to answer questions about your Azure resources.
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Us the Office 365 Exchange Online reports to answer questions about your Exchange® Online mailbox, mailbox folders, and public folders and their permissions.
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Use the Microsoft Teams reports to answer questions about your Microsoft Teams in Office 365.
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Use the Microsoft SharePoint Online reports to answer questions about your SharePoint Online environments.

Components of Enterprise Reporter

Components of Enterprise Reporter

Enterprise Reporter has two components that work together to collect and report on your corporate IT data. Additionally, you can install the Database Wizard to help manage your Enterprise Reporter database and use SSRS to make reports available online.

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The Configuration Manager
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The Report Manager
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The Database Wizard and Database Content Wizard
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The Encryption Key Manager
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SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

The Configuration Manager

In order to create reports, you must first gather the data. The Configuration Manager manages the process of creating and managing the discoveries that collect data, and the computers that perform the actual collecting. The Configuration Manager is intended for use by administrators who are responsible for managing data collection.

There are several tasks that you perform using the Configuration Manager:

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Configure clusters and nodes
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Create and run discoveries
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View errors and statistics for each discovery

See also:

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An Overview of the Configuration Manager
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Clusters
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Shared Data Locations
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Nodes
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Discoveries
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