MessageStats 7.8 - Report Pack for Exchange Online User Guide

MessageStats Reports Security Settings

MessageStats Reports Security Settings

For all servers housing the MessageStats Report Pack for Exchange Online Reports web server, ensure the following:

•	On the MessageStats Reports virtual directory, ensure that Integrated Windows Authentication is selected.

•	The user accessing the web site must be in the Web Report Users local group to view the site. The user can also be in the Web Report Administrators and Web Report Authors local groups, depending on your security hierarchy.

The account must also be in the MessageStats Admin local group (for read and write access) or MessageStats Web local group (for read access only).

Installing the Exchange Online Report Pack

Installing the Exchange Online Report Pack

Use the following procedure to install the report pack.

To install MessageStats Report Pack for Exchange Online

1	Log on to your system using MessageStats service account.

2	Double-click the autorun.exe file and select the Install tab.

3	Select the Exchange Online link.

4	Read the license agreement, select the I accept the license agreement check box and click Next.

5	Select the features that you want to install and click Next.

6	Verify the folder in which the report pack is to be installed and click Next.

7	Verify the SQL instance (MessageStats database) on which you are installing the report pack database components and click Next.

8	Click Next to begin the installation.

9	When the installation is complete, click Finish.

Connecting and configuring for Exchange Online

•	Accessing the Exchange Online Data

•	Connecting to Exchange Online

•	About Exchange Online Connection Properties

▪	Viewing or Reconfiguring Connection Properties

▪	Identifying Internal Domains

▪	Specifying Domain Classifications

Accessing the Exchange Online Data

Accessing the Exchange Online Data

To collect data about your Exchange Online mailboxes and users, you must create a connection to the Office 365 tenant from which you want to collect the data.

When you create the connection, you are registering the report pack application with the Microsoft Azure portal and configuring permissions to access the Microsoft.Graph API and use Exchange Online PowerShell.

Once you have created the tenant connection, you configure internal and other domain classifications that will be used in the reports. After configuration, you can set up gathering tasks to collect specific types of information.

Prerequisites

The following software must be installed on any server that hosts the task processors (Task Execution Server) or the MessageStats MMC client console:

•	Exchange Online PowerShell v2.0 Module is required on any server that hosts the task processors or MessageStats MMC client console.