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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

Azure Resource Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions

Exclusions refine the scope by limiting the collection to only the necessary information.

1
Click Add to populate the subscription list with all subscriptions for all credentials provided on the Name page.
3
Click Exclude.

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

Basic information from the tenant (the tenant 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.

 

Virtual machines

 

Medium

Disks

 

Medium

Networking

 

Medium

Storage Accounts

 

Medium

Access control

Collects basic information about access control.

Medium

If collecting access control information, you can enable this option to collect group member information.

Medium

Choosing Your Exchange Online Scopes

Exchange Online discoveries, by default, target the Azure tenant that you specified with the credentials on the Name page in Step 1. Create the Discovery (Name) .

Information about your online mailboxes, public folders, contacts, distribution groups, and distribution group members is collected based on the discovery options.

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

You can collect a variety of information from the Office 365 tenant in your discovery. Basic information from the tenant (the tenant 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.

Mailboxes

Collects basic information for Mailboxes and Public Folder Mailboxes (except FirstName and LastName fields).

Medium

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

If collecting mailboxes, you can enable this option to collect mailbox statistics on Exchange mailboxes.

High

If collecting mailboxes, you can enable this option to collect folders in Exchange mailboxes.

High

Public Folders

Collects basic information for Public Folders.

High

Collects basic information for System Public Folders .

High

Mail-Enabled Users

Collects basic account information for Mail-Enabled Users (except FirstName, FullName, LastName, and Initials fields).

Low

Mail Contacts

Collects basic account information for Mail Contacts (except FirstName, FullName, LastName, and initials fields).

Low

Distribution Groups

Collects basic account information for Distribution Groups.

Medium

If collecting distribution groups, you can enable this option to recursively collect the members of any groups found in the Exchange Online discovery.

High

If collecting distribution groups, you can enable this option to recursively collect the members of any dynamic groups found in the Exchange Online discovery.

High

Permissions

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

High

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

Note: This selection is only available if Mailbox folders is selected.

High

Nested group members

Recursively collects the members of any groups found in the Exchange Online 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 this performance option to help improve collection performance.

Collect only files with explicit permissions

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

Selecting this option reduces the high performance cost of collecting all file permissions.

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