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Enterprise Reporter 3.5.2 - Configuration Manager User Guide

Table of Contents

Product Overview

Key Features of Enterprise Reporter Components of Enterprise Reporter

The Configuration Manager

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

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

Summarizing the Workflow

Configuring the Configuration Manager

Starting the Configuration Manager Finding answers and getting help Overview of Enterprise Reporter Communications and Credentials Required

Node Credential and Alternate Credential Details for On-Premises Discoveries Detailed permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries Permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries on NAS devices Permissions for Enterprise Reporter tenant applications Logged-In User Credentials Server Service Credentials

Changing the credentials used by the Enterprise Reporter Server Changing the credentials used by the Enterprise Reporter Server in a Kerberos environment

Using the Credential Manager

Changing Passwords Using the Credential Manager Changing Account Names Using the Credential Manager

Setting Up Your First Collection Computers (Nodes)

Configuring Clusters and Nodes for Effective Data Collection Things to Consider Before Creating a Cluster Creating Your First Cluster and Node

Modifying Your Deployment

Managing Clusters

When Do You Add a Cluster? Modifying a Cluster Deleting a Cluster Disabling a Cluster What To Do if a Cluster is Disabled Enabling a Cluster

Modifying Node Credentials Modifying the Location of Node Temporary Files Changing a Node to a Different Cluster Removing a Node Why Disable a Node? Stopping a Node Enabling a Node Starting a Node

What does the status of a node or cluster indicate?

Configuring Global Settings

Configuring Change History Configure Logging Credential Manager Database Settings Configuring Email Notifications Registering an Application for Exchange Online Email Delivery

Registering and configuring an application through the Microsoft Azure portal

Managing the Collection of Additional Attributes Configuring IT Security Search Configuring a NAS Host Device Configuring Server Error Notification Managing Tenant Applications Managing Certificates for Tenant Applications Creating Your Own Certificate for Discovery Authentication Managing the Logon Configuration

Customizing the Configuration Manager View

Understanding Discoveries

Defining the Data Collection (Discoveries) Multi-Factor Authentication Discovery Credential Limitations Best Practices for Creating Discoveries Improving the Performance of Your Discoveries

Adding a Node Improving the Performance of a Node

Discovery Permission Requirements

Detailed permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries Permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries on NAS devices Permissions for Enterprise Reporter tenant applications CM Understanding Discoveries.04.12.html

Creating Discoveries

Step 1. Create the Discovery (Name)

Configuring Tenant Applications for Cloud Discoveries

Step 2. Choose what to include in your discovery (Scopes)

Scopes: An Overview How Scopes Affect Tombstoning Using the Browser to Include and Exclude Scopes Including Objects in Your Scope Importing Computers to Your Scopes Refining Your Scope with Exclusions Filtering in the Browser Using Queries to Define Your Scopes Using Subnets to Define Your Scopes Using Subnet Credentials

Step 2a. Choose scopes for your on-premises discoveries

Choosing your Active Directory Scopes

AD Discovery: Include scopes AD Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions AD Discovery: Optionally select one or more domain controllers AD Discovery: Decide what to collect from any domain in the discovery

Choosing your Computer Scopes

Computer Discovery: Include scopes Computer Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Computer Discovery: Decide what to collect from any computer in the discovery

Choosing Your Exchange Scopes

Exchange Discovery: Include Scopes Exchange Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Exchange Discovery: Optionally select a domain controller Exchange Discovery: Decide what to collect from any server in the discovery

Choosing Your File Storage Analysis Scopes

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

Choosing Your Microsoft SQL Scopes

MS SQL Discovery: Include scopes MS SQL Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions (Scope Exclusions and Global Exclusions)

Choosing Your NTFS Scopes

NTFS Discovery: Best Practices NTFS Discovery: Include scopes NTFS Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions NTFS Discovery: Select your global scopes NTFS Discovery: Decide what to collect from any computer in the discovery NTFS Discovery: Configure NAS Host Devices NTFS Discovery: Configure your file collection

Choosing Your Registry Scopes

Registry Discovery: Include scopes Registry Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Registry Discovery: Select your global scopes Registry Discovery: Decide what to collect from any computer

Step 2b: Choose scopes for your cloud discoveries

Choosing Your Microsoft Entra ID Scopes

Microsoft Entra ID Discovery: Decide what to collect from the tenant in the discovery

Choosing Your Azure Resource Scopes

Azure Resource Discovery: Include Scopes Azure Resource Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Azure Resource Discovery: Decide what to collect from the subscriptions in the discovery

Choosing Your Exchange Online Scopes

Exchange Online Discovery: Decide what to collect from the tenant in the discovery

Choosing Your Microsoft Teams Scopes

Microsoft Teams Discovery: Include Scopes Microsoft Teams Discovery: Decide what to collect from the subscriptions in the discovery

Choosing Your OneDrive Scopes

OneDrive Discovery: Include Scopes OneDrive Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions OneDrive Discovery: Decide what to collect from the drives in the discovery

Choosing Your SharePoint Online Scopes

SharePoint Online Discovery: Include Scopes SharePoint Online Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions SharePoint Online Discovery: Decide what to collect from the tenant in the discovery

Step 3. Schedule your Discovery

Run your discovery once Run your discovery on a daily interval Run your discovery on specified days of the week Run your discovery on a specified day of the month Run Your Schedule Yearly Enabling and Disabling Discovery Schedules

Step 4: Review the summary

Managing Discoveries

How is a Discovery Processed?

Types of Tasks Manually Running a Discovery

Viewing your Discoveries

Navigating the Manage Discoveries Pane Viewing the History of a Discovery What Does the Discovery Status Indicate? Viewing the Tasks for a Finished Discovery Viewing the Tasks for a Processing Discovery What Does the Task Status Indicate? Why is My View Empty? Viewing Errors and Error Suppressions Suppressing Discovery Errors Viewing Statistics Viewing a Cluster's Queue

Working with Discoveries and Tasks

Duplicating a Discovery Modifying a Discovery Canceling a Task or Discovery Deleting a Discovery

Troubleshooting Issues with Enterprise Reporter

Problems Opening the Consoles Troubleshooting connectivity issues

Restoring a connection to the Enterprise Reporter Server Restoring a connection to the Enterprise Reporter database

Troubleshooting Connection Timeouts Troubleshooting credential change failures Auditing Enterprise Reporter Activity Resolving Configuration Manager Issues

Node Deployment Issues Dealing with Unassociated Nodes Dealing with Faulted Nodes Problems Deleting a Node Changing the Node Logging Level Changing the Size of the Node Log Files

Scope Enumeration Issues Data Collection Issues

Computer Discovery Errors

Troubleshooting Features in Enterprise Reporter

Exporting Logs from the Configuration Manager Viewing information about your Enterprise Reporter configuration Viewing Errors and Statistics for Tasks

Moving the Enterprise Reporter database Disaster Recovery

Backing up Enterprise Reporter Deploying Enterprise Reporter to another computer after a disaster Checking the Enterprise Reporter configuration after recovery

Appendix: PowerShell cmdlets

What is Microsoft Windows PowerShell? What are cmdlets? Registering Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Adding the snap-ins automatically to new sessions Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Enabling Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Loading the Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Using cmdlets to manage clusters and nodes

Creating a cluster Creating a node Disabling a node Enabling a node Finding a node by name Piping cmdlets Finding a cluster by name Disabling a cluster Enabling a cluster

Using cmdlets to manage discoveries

Getting job information Creating a job Running a job Scheduling a job Deleting a job

Using cmdlets to run reports

Connecting to the server Getting report information Exporting a report definition Importing a report definition to a category Generating a report with data

Appendix: Encryption Key Manager

Starting the Encryption Key Manager Generating a key file Importing a key file Exporting a key file Resetting credentials

Appendix: Log Viewer

Starting the Enterprise Reporter Log Viewer Finding and opening log files Viewing and searching log file entries Filtering log file entries

Choosing Your Microsoft Entra ID Scopes

Microsoft Entra ID discoveries, by default, target the tenant that you specified with the credentials on the Name page in Step 1. Create the Discovery (Name) .

Information about your contacts, users, groups, group members, roles, and application service principals is collected based on the discovery options.

Microsoft Entra ID Discovery: Decide what to collect from the tenant in the discovery

You can collect a variety of information from the Microsoft Entra tenant in your discovery. Basic information from the tenant (the tenant name and full LDAP path), subscriptions, licenses, and service plans 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 44. Microsoft Entra ID Discovery: Optionally collect information for the following objects

Performance Cost

Collects basic information for all user accounts.

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Additional attributes from Microsoft 365

If collecting users, you can enable this option to collect additional attributes such as AboutMe, Birthday, HireDate, Interests, MySite, PastProjects, PreferredName, Responsibilities, Schools, and Skills.

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Multi-Factor Authentication attributes

If collecting users, you can enable this option to collect Multi-Factor Authentication information.

If required, you can also select to collect extended MFA attribute. When this option is enabled, the following fields will be included in the collection:

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MFAAlternativePhoneNumber

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Users flagged for risk

If collecting users, you can enable this option to collect users flagged for risk.

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Active user data

Select time period over which user activity data is collected (7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 180 days).

If collecting users, you can enable this option to collect user activity data such as such as which licenses are assigned to a user and the dates when a user last used a licensed service.

Collects basic information for all groups including direct members.

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Additional attributes from Microsoft 365

If collecting groups, you can enable this option to collect additional attributes such as AutoSubscribeNewMembers, and IsSubscribedByMail.

Collects basic information for all contacts.

Collects basic information for all devices and their users.

Collects basic information for all standard roles including role direct members.

Applications and Service Principals

Collects information for all applications and service principals including the user and group assignments.


	NOTE: Microsoft 365 discoveries support both Multi-Factor Authentication enabled and disabled credentials. However, using Multi-Factor Authentication enabled credentials on Microsoft 365 discoveries can result in an incomplete collection that omits one or more objects and attributes. For more information, see Multi-Factor Authentication Discovery Credential Limitations .

Choosing Your Azure Resource Scopes

Azure Resource discoveries, by default, target the tenant that you specified with the credentials on the Name page in Step 1. Create the Discovery (Name) . Information about your resources is collected based on the discovery options.

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Azure Resource Discovery: Include Scopes

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Azure Resource Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions

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Azure Resource Discovery: Decide what to collect from the subscriptions in the discovery

Azure Resource Discovery: Include Scopes

By default, the discovery collects information from the subscriptions you specify. You can change the scope to collect all subscriptions. For full information on using the browser to add scopes, see Step 2b: Choose scopes for your cloud discoveries .

To specify whether to collect all subscriptions or only specific subscriptions

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Select Collect only selected subscriptions to explicitly include individual subscriptions in the scope.


	NOTE: This option is recommended when the majority of the subscriptions on the target tenant do not need to be collected. For more information, see To explicitly include objects in your Azure Resource scope .

Select Collect all subscriptions with the option to exclude selected subscriptions to collect all available information from most or all of the subscriptions on the target tenant.


	NOTE: This option is recommended when the majority of the subscriptions on the target tenant must be collected. For more information, see Azure Resource Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions .

To explicitly include objects in your Azure Resource scope

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Add to populate the subscription list with all subscriptions for all credentials provided on the Name page.

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In the treeview, locate the object to include and select it.

To select multiple objects, press Ctrl during selection.

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Click Include to add to your selected scopes list.

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