Reporter

• Multiple, Scalable Data Collection Methods: Supports live and scheduled data collection  to minimize bandwidth consumption and provide load balancing capabilities. Also, the data collectors are managed all from a single console, which improves efficiency. These options ensure that you can collect the most current data available or take advantage of scheduling capabilities to minimize the impact on users and network resources.
• Baseline Comparisons: Perform automated comparisons of Active Directory and Windows configurations against an ideal baseline, speeding the deployment and ongoing management of servers and reducing the workload on administrators.
• Instant Expertise: Use extensive, predefined, rule-based templates to perform a comparison of your environment to some of the most common enterprise configuration standards, such as Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks and Microsoft Best Practices.  Reporter is also fully customizable to support internal and external operational practices.
• Data Analysis and Presentation: Provides more than 300 predefined, editable reports that you can output to multiple formats including Excel, PDF, CSV, RTF, HTML and via a Knowledge Portal. Reporter also helps you to create customized reports with the flexibility to include additional attributes and use advanced filtering, promoting efficient, effective data analysis and helping to ensure that reports reflect the unique informational needs of your organization.
• Compliance Views: Fast visualization and quick drill down into general or very specific compliant and non-compliant categories/areas is available with Reporter. Advanced filtering capabilities granularly scope compliance results to your needs.
• Change History Reports: Designed for change history reporting to make it automatic to display the change history results, giving you more in-depth insight for historical analysis.
• Action-Enabled Reports: Supports a proactive approach to security to allow you to resolve configuration problems and automate changes based on results. This pinpoints the cause of a security breach and automates appropriate change to eliminate previously manual processes and save you valuable time.

Before installing Quest Reporter, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:

Language Supported:

• US English

• Essentials of Quest Reporter Series

  This five-part demo series was created to highlight the key benefits found in Quest Reporter, namely: flexibility, scalability, reliability and performance. In the series, we focus on reporting capabilities that are meaningful and provide real business value to you.

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• Filling the Gap in Windows Security Baselining with Quest Reporter

  Learn how far native functionality, Group Policy, Security Templates and the Security Log can go to help you meet configuration baselining requirements from Windows security expert, Randy Franklin Smith.

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• Generate Cost Savings and Improve Efficiency with Proper Compliance Efforts

  Learn how to reduce costs and improve efficiency with creative approaches to your compliance challenges in this engaging webcast by Randy Franklin Smith.

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• Ten Reasons You Absolutely Need a Reporting Solution for Active Directory to Pass Audits, Be Secure and Reduce Costs

  Listen to experts Randy Franklin Smith and Brian Hymer to learn how an automated reporting tool can protect your Windows infrastructure and simplify and strengthen the security of your AD environment.

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