Microsoft AVD Assessment, Active Directory Assessment, Office 365 Assessment, and FSLogix Assessment are the four functions provided by SmartProfiler. The tool is intended to detect problems in the aforementioned environments and generate an actionable report in Word/HTML format. SmartProfiler Assessment is intended to be used as one-time assessment tool. Please use DCA if you want to perform continuous assessment. DCA also supports more features and ability to create more modules.
The Center for Internet Security is a nonprofit entity whose mission is to 'identify, develop, validate, promote, and sustain best practice solutions for cyberdefense.’ It draws on the expertise of cybersecurity and IT professionals from government, business, and academia from around the world. To develop standards and best practices, including CIS benchmarks, controls, and hardened images, they follow a consensus decision-making model.
SmartProfiler is designed to support CIS Standards designed for Office 365 and Azure Assessments.
Businesses have deployed Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) in production. However, many AVD environments are still not utilizing full capabilities of FSLogix and Windows 10/Windows 11 or these AVD environments might be missing recommended settings. We have designed AVD Assessment Tool that can be used to perform assessment of complete AVD environment and provide an Assessment Report which includes issues and recommendations to fix the issues.
Active Directory is a primary source for Authentication and Authorization for users and business applications. Microsoft doesn't provide out of the box tools that can be used to perform health & risk assessment of Active Directory environment. Our SmartProfiler AD Assessment Tool can be used to perform assessment of multiple Active Directory forests and provide an Assessment Report which includes issues and recommendations to fix the issues.
SmartProfiler for Office 365 Assessment is an automated Health & Risk assessment solution to help you significantly improve your Microsoft Office 365 ecosystem health & security posture. SmartProfiler for Office 365 Assessment follows CIS-Workbench controls and other tests designed by our Office 365 experts. Services covered: MSOnline, EXO, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Azure AD.
Please check below table to understand SmartProfiler Assessment Products and value proposition associated with each product. Below table can be used to undertand why perform assessment of a particular technology.
Assessment Category A
Assessment Type: Health Assessment
Description: Checks for issues and broken components and provides impact and recommendations report in Word/HTML format.
Assessment Category B
Assessment Type: Risk & Security Non-Compliance
Description: Checks for Risk & Security and non-compliance items in the environment and provide an actionable report with Impact and recommendations.
Assessment Category C
Assessment Type: Performance Improvement Optimization Configuration Inconsistencies
Description: Checks items that need improvements and also suggest optimization items to be applied to environment. Can also check configuration incosistencies.
SMARTPROFILER PRODUCT |
APP TYPE
|
CREDENNTIAL REQUIREMENTS |
CREDENTIAL SUPPORT |
TARGET CONNECTIVITY |
Office 365 Assessment
|
Desktop App |
Global Administrator Account (Read-Only) Global Administrator account to be part of Important Office 365 Roles |
MFA Non-MFA MS Login Prompt
|
Office 365 Subscription connectivity and can connect to all Office 365 Services using GA Account.
|
Azure Assessment
|
Desktop App |
Global Administrator Account (Read-Only) Global Administrator account to be part of Important Azure Roles |
MFA Non-MFA MS Login Prompt
|
Azure Subscription connectivity and can connect to all Azure Services using GA Account.
|
Active Directory Assessment
|
Desktop App |
Logged In with Enterprise Admin Account Account to be part of Important Domain Roles |
Not Applicable |
Connectivity to all Active Directory Forests and Domains. Each Domain Controller in each AD Domain must be reachable in order to run various tests. Account to be part of Important Domain Roles |
AVD Assessment
|
Desktop App |
Service Principal Account SPN have acccess to Azure Subscription where host pools are hosted. |
Not Applicable |
Connects to a single Session Host in each Host Pool. A Session Host per Host Pool is specified during Assessment Discovery phase. |
FSLogix Assessment
|
Desktop App |
Service Principal Account SPN have acccess to Azure Subscription where host pools are hosted. |
Not Applicable |
Connects to a single Session Host in each Host Pool. A Session Host per Host Pool is specified during Assessment Discovery phase. |
SMARTPROFILER PRODUCT |
APP TYPE
|
TECHNICAL CATEGORIES |
FRAMEWORK TYPE |
TOTAL TESTS |
CIS TESTS |
TENANCY SUPPORT |
Office 365 Assessment
|
Desktop App
|
Services Covered: Exchange Online, MSOnline, Teams, Azure AD, SharePoint and OneDrive
|
Static
|
128 |
98 |
Multi-Tenant
|
Azure Assessment
|
Desktop App
|
|
Static
|
128 |
98 |
Multi-Tenant
|
Active Directory Assessment
|
Desktop App
|
|
Static
|
128 |
Not Applicable |
Multi-Forests
|
AVD Assessment
|
Desktop App
|
|
Static
|
524 |
Not Applicable |
Multi-Tenant
|
FSLogix Assessment
|
Desktop App
|
|
Static
|
45 |
Not Applicable |
Single-Tenant
|