Syskit Point Configuration Guide
Syskit Point enables Microsoft 365 admins, workspace owners, auditors, and compliance officers with everything they need to manage and govern the content they own and provides the ability to automate security tasks.
This comprehensive tool can analyze your content, check whether everything is functioning optimally, and help you export or schedule reports with just a few simple clicks.
Several things need to be set up before you can utilize everything Syskit Point offers. This article provides an easy overview of how to get started using Syskit Point.
Set Up and Customize E-mails
To help you stay up to date with the workings of your Microsoft 365 environment, Syskit Point sends e-mails to owners, administrators, and other users when policies are applied. For these e-mails to work properly and be successfully sent, you will need to set up your e-mail within Syskit Point.
For detailed instructions on configuring your e-mail settings within Syskit Point, please follow the steps listed in the Set Up E-mail article.
Once the e-mail has been set up, you can also customize the e-mails that are sent to workspace owners as a part of Workspace Review, Inactive Workspaces, Access Review tasks (replaced by Workspace Review), and other policy tasks.
E-mails are also used to receive scheduled reports available in the Reports section of Syskit Point.
Learn more about which aspects of the e-mails can be customized, along with a step-by-step guide on how to customize them in the Customize E-mails article.
Enable and Manage Access for Syskit Point
After deploying Syskit Point, you'll be able to give your Microsoft 365 users access to the Syskit Point web app.
Assigning these roles to users provides them with different levels of access. Depending on the role assigned, users will be able to:
- View all data collected from the Microsoft 365 tenant
- Perform actions based on the permissions granted to them in Microsoft 365
- Have access to all data related to sites, Microsoft 365 Groups, and Microsoft Teams
These roles also allow workspace owners to resolve governance tasks for their workspaces.
To learn more about the specifics of each role and how to assign them to your users, take a look at the Enable Role-Based Access article.
Ignore Service Account Activity Tracking
Service accounts are user accounts created to fulfill automated, expected changes to the server.
The Ignored Service Accounts option in Syskit Point allows you to avoid tracking the service accounts' activities collected from the Unified Audit Logs, meaning:
- The Service Account page hits and views will be ignored when detecting any workspace activity
- The Service Account audit logs won't be stored
- The Service Account changes will be ignored and won't trigger alerts
Learn all about service accounts in Syskit Point and how to avoid tracking their activity by reading through the Ignore Service Account Activity tracking article.
Customize Audit Logs Collection
The Audit Logs provide insights into all user and administration activities in your Microsoft 365 environment. They contain activity information related to groups, documents, permissions, directory services, and much more.
For more details on Audit Logs collection and how to customize it, take a look at the Customize Audit Logs collection article.
Customize License Reports
The License Reports can discover assigned, unassigned, or inactive Microsoft 365 licenses and check their overall cost. This might help you optimize the use of your licenses based on which of them are underutilized.
Customizing license reports can only be done by users with the assigned Syskit Point Admin role.
Learn more about license reports and how to customize them in the Customize License Reports article.
Enable Power Platform Data Collection
If you utilize Power Apps, Power Automate, or Power BI in your Microsoft 365 environment, you can collect related data and manage these resources in Syskit Point.
For instructions on how to set up the Power Platform and Power BI data collection, follow the instructions in the Power Platform section
Syskit Point for Collaborators and Owners
When the initial set-up is finalized, the users from your Microsoft 365 environment with assigned roles can start exploring Syskit Point.
Depending on the level of access permitted to a user, there are certain actions that can be completed: