Newbie : Report access for end users : Best Practices
We are planning to allow end users access to certain Web Reports. (a) Is it recommened? If not, whats the best way to provide h/w and s/w inventory reports to many Business regions across the globe every month? (b) Any Best Practices or imporant points to note? (c) Is it recommended to add "Everyone" to the Local Reporting point Group and restrict access solely based on SCCM Class/Instance security. (analogous to Share/NTFS permissions best practices)
March 30th, 2010 7:12am

A) I wouldn't think it would matter for most companies/scenarios. We don't, but only because there isn't a need for our users to see that information (that and the sheer amount would probably overwhelm them). We have a group in AD called SCCM Report Viewers which we have configured to *only* allow Read access to reports which include our project managers and the like. With your scenario, I would recommend setting up SSRS (available if you are running R2) and allow subscriptions. You can set up a subscription to your specific reports and have it automatically email to the desired users every month in an Excel spreadhseet or a PDF, all automated and requires no hands-on past initial setup. B) Allowing them read access to reports isn't necessarily a security risk, but then again, every environment is different and if you are collecting and reporting on sensitive information it could be a problem. With the SSRS subscriptions you don't have to expose the reporting page to end users so they only see what you want them to. C) As mentioned in (A), we have an AD group called SCCM Report Viewers that are set up in SCCM and in the local group. We have this group for administrative purposes.. Makes it easier to track and control permissions on than dealing with user accounts explicitly.
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March 30th, 2010 8:48am

There's also a beta version of a solution accelerator available that integrates ConfigMgr with Sharepoint. See https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=14&DownloadID=26269
March 30th, 2010 9:26am

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