Microsoft® Audit

Starting Your Microsoft® Audit

Step 1: Log into your server with Remote Desktop

Do this in the same way you would normally

Step 2: Ensure PowerShell 3.0 is available

You will need to ensure that you have PowerShell 3.0 installed as an application. This link will tell you how to install PowerShell 3.0 if it is not already installed.

Installing Windows PowerShell

Step 3: Navigate to our audit page on your server

When logged into your server go to support.register.it/microsoft-audit/ to access the audit files.

Step 4: Download the audit files to your server

Click the download button below, to download the audit files Create a folder on your server. Add the following files from your downloads folder to the folder you just created.

• hosts.csv
• config.csv
• Deloitte Inventory Tool.ps1

Download files There are two features required to successfully run the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) scan:

• 1. The remote registry service has to run on the remote machine;
• 2. The remote machine must have remote administration enabled.

Enable the Remote Registry Service

The script must be executed on a Windows Server Domain Controller. The user must have the necessary administrator privileges to execute the script. Windows Powershell Version 3.0 is strongly recommended. Some features or scans might not return the necessary information when using Windows Powershell 2.0.

Step 5: Run the audit file

Please follow the instructions to run the PowerShell scripts:

• 1. Open the PowerShell command-line as an Administrator.
• 2. (If execution policy is not set) Type: Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted and confirm setting with 'y'
• Simply right click on the script and select 'Run With PowerShell' or
• 3. Type: cd <location of script>
• 4. Type: '.Deloitte` Inventory` Tool.ps1'
• 5. The script will generate the output files in the folder location of the script.

Step 6: Send Output Files By Email

Once your output files have been generated, please compress them into a single .ZIP file and email it to us at   ms.audit@simplyhosting.com  specifying in the subject your Server IP address

Once your files have been reviewed by Microsoft's appointed audit partners (Deloitte), the audit may complete or we may need to contact you to request additional information.

Step 7: Removing audit files/folder from your server

Once you have sent us your output files simply delete the folder you created to remove all audit files. Important: After you have completed the steps above please ensure you disable remote registry service and re-enable IE enhanced security if you had disabled it during the audit process.