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Enterprise Reporter 3.1 - Installation and Deployment Guide

Product Overview Installation Considerations for Enterprise Reporter Installing and Configuring Enterprise Reporter Managing Your Enterprise Reporter Deployment Troubleshooting Issues with Enterprise Reporter Appendix: Database Content Wizard

Product Overview

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Introducing Quest™ Enterprise Reporter
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Key Features of Enterprise Reporter
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Enterprise Reporter Components
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Enterprise Reporter Architecture

Introducing Quest™ Enterprise Reporter

Quest Enterprise Reporter provides administrators, security officers, help desk staff, and other stakeholders with insight into their network environment. Reporting on your network environment provides:

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General visibility into the security and configuration of your environment.
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Validation against your security policies to ensure objects are configured as expected. This helps you detect security violations such as identifying users with inappropriate access.
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An easy way to respond to inquiries from internal and external auditors requesting security and configuration information.

Enterprise Reporter provides scalability, security, and customizability by:

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Allowing you to deploy Enterprise Reporter to take advantage of both your network structure and available hardware or virtual computers. You can scale your deployment up or down as your needs change.
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Separating data collection from reporting, allowing less technical users to easily generate the reports they need from stored data.
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Using role-based security to provide and revoke access to your Quest Enterprise Reporter deployment.
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Providing granular credentials management, allowing you to access information using different accounts for performing different tasks and accessing different parts of your environment. Accounts are stored in a central Credential Manager, making it easy for you to see what accounts are in use and to keep them up to date.
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Providing a full featured report designer. You can easily customize the included reports by adding attributes and using advanced filtering, or you can build new reports to satisfy the unique requirements of your organization.
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Automating the collection of data and the generation and delivery of reports.

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. In order 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 and clusters.
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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® and Exchange Online™ environments.
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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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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 Knowledge Portal.
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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® and Exchange Online™ 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.

Enterprise Reporter Components

An Enterprise Reporter deployment includes (at minimum):

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An Enterprise Reporter server and database
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At least one Configuration Manager installation
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At least one deployed node
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At least one Report Manager installation
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