What's New In Enterprise Reporter 3.5

Welcome This is Quest Unscripted-- --a vlog series on trending topics-- --and Quest solutions related to Active Directory-- --Office 365. Oh, and don't forget Azure AD. You are here because you have questions. We're here because we have answers. I think. We will address questions we've received from customers-- --experience the same challenges as you-- --all with the goal of helping you confidently move-- --manage-- --and secure-- --your Microsoft environment. We call the show Quest Unscripted because-- --except for this intro-- --nothing we say is scripted or rehearsed. And we're pretty sure you'll notice that right away. So we're going to talk about [INAUDIBLE]. Anna, you just did a demo for Enterprise Reporter, you just said. What was it about? So, I just mentioned and talked about actually the newest version of it besides, you know, its features. And so I basically mentioned that probably the best part of the 3.5 is the health check reports that are now available for AD, for the entire Active Directory, and then its objects, computer users, and groups. And one of the other features that I really like is can report on manage group service accounts, which, I thought it was a great addition here to the reports. What's so beneficial about the health checks report for Active Directory? What would I as an organization use it and leverage it for? So, from a security perspective, since I was on the security team prior to coming to Quest, some of these reports, they seem to be very useful when it's looking at Active Directory and what's happening in it, and those health check reports help you identify what you have misconfigured. Got you. And I know we have a lot of SharePoint Online reporting now, which is great, looking at sites, content-- More data. [INAUDIBLE] usage. Yep, all brand new. [INAUDIBLE] data, all brand new. This has been actually waited for for quite some time. So we have Enterprise Reporter, reported in Active Directory, file, shares, NTFS, exchange, OneDrive, Teams. And we didn't have SharePoint, but now we do. So, that's great-- all in one solution. I know [INAUDIBLE], you just upgraded our labs with Enterprise Reporter. Any issues? Yep. Like, what was that about? The upgrade is fun. I'm going to throw out a couple of warnings first just to make sure you don't lose anything. Obviously, it has a SQL server database. Backup your database. That's just a given. There's an encryption key that Enterprise Reporter uses for the credentials. We're still running some credentials for the nodes and how they're doing their discoveries and how they get out there. First thing, before you do anything, after you do the backup, is go into the Key Manager tool and export your encryption key before you do your upgrade just to make sure that you have it. I did this in my home lab first, and I accidentally blew up my own database because I thought I had a key, and I couldn't remember the password. So I couldn't recover the database. And I had to blow it away and do it again. So that's probably the biggest issue there. But you installed 3.5. That will lay down the code, takes no time at all. You run the Database Wizard, point to your database, and it's going to run the upgrades of the database. And it will prompt you again to save your keys. So save that again as a second file for you. And then you can jump in to the config manager and tell it to upgrade your nodes at that point. SharePoint does add a new configuration to the tenant piece that you'll need to configure so that you can do the SharePoint discoveries. And it's kind of similar to like what we do with Teams, where we can find all of the Teams. But to do the inventory and gathering of the data in the team, the same thing within the SharePoint site. The account that is being used to do discovery needs to be a member to be able to grab the data within it. But we can go out, and we'll find all the Teams, and we'll get all the base information about what's out there or within the SharePoint sites to report on Cool. Very valuable information. Bryan, I know you have something to say. Well, I was thinking, like, in this framework, I'm thinking about identify. And we have a couple different tools that fit into that different pillar. Enterprise Reporter fits in that pillar-- right identifying misconfigurations, some vulnerabilities, the stuff you have to do from a compliance perspective. But please also check out Bloodhound Enterprise, which can actually help you visualize a lot of different attack paths that are out there. So there's definitely some overlap, but there's definitely a lot of extra visibility you can get with Bloodhound going above and beyond just compliance, general security needs that your organization may have. Yeah, definitely. I mean, Enterprise Reporter is-- you can look at it from different angles. You can look at it from a security angle. You could look at it from operationally what's going on. You could look at it from a migration standpoint. I think we still, on every single migration opportunity that our services is engaged on, they still install Enterprise Reporter to make sure that we run specific reports. Yeah. If you have the Enterprise Reporter suite, remember that you're also entitled to Security Explorer, which has some fantastic capabilities in there, especially as you're cleaning up some of your different data to actually restrict it so less people have access. So if you ever want to get more information about that, please ask. We'd love to get you to take advantage of those capabilities. Yeah, I appreciate it, guys. By the way, Bryan, you had an intruder in your backyard a few minutes back. Don't know if you noticed. All good. --too. Yeah, cool. All right,