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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

SharePoint Online Discovery: Include Scopes

SharePoint 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 sites, site members, site owners, site groups, permissions, and SharePoint Online Configuration Settings and Policies is collected based on the discovery options.

To specify whether to collect all sites or only specific sites
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Select Collect only selected sites to explicitly include individual sites in the scope.
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Select Collect all sites with the option to exclude selected sites to collect all available information from most or all of the sites on the target tenant.
To explicitly include sites in your SharePoint Online scope
1
Click Add.
2
Type a keyword and click Search to populate the Available Sites window. Entering additional keywords will narrow the search results.
3
In the Available Sites window, use the up and down arrows to move through the pages and locate the desired site.
4
Click the site to select it.
To select multiple sites, press Ctrl during selection.
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Click Include to add to your selected scopes list.
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Click OK.

SharePoint Online Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions

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

To explicitly exclude sites from your selected SharePoint Online scope
1
Click Add.
2
Enter search criteria and click Search to populate the Available Sites window.
3
Use the up and down arrows to move through the pages and locate the site you want to exclude.
You can press Ctrl while you click to select multiple objects.
4
Click Exclude.

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

Basic information from the tenant (the tenant name and full LDAP path) and sites is always collected.

If you decide to collect Classic Sites and Personal Sites information, the statistical attributes of these sites are not 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 40. SharePoint Online Discovery: Optionally collect information for the following objects
Option
Notes
Performance Cost

Classic Sites

 

Medium

Personal Sites

 

Medium

Permissions

 

Medium

Site Groups

 

Medium

Policies and Settings

 

Medium

 
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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 .
 

Step 3. Schedule your Discovery

There are five types of schedules you can create (once, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly). These are the same as the schedule types you can create to run reports in the Report Manager. You can create up to five schedules per discovery. Schedules are grouped alphabetically by type (daily, monthly, once, and weekly) and sorted within the groups chronologically. A schedule can be enabled or disabled at any time.

All times are stored in local time. They will be adjusted when your local time changes, such as for Daylight Savings Time.

When creating or editing the schedule for a discovery, you can view a calendar showing when the discovery will run based on the schedule. A discovery can also be run manually at any time—unless it is currently running. For details, see How is a Discovery Processed? and Manually Running a Discovery .

Once you create a schedule for the discovery, you can see the next scheduled run in the main Manage Discoveries pane. For more information, see Viewing your Discoveries .

See also:

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