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In this demonstration,

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I'll show you how to enable inbox accounting and reporting.

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It's important to know that before we get started,

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you'll need to install my custom PowerShell module,

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so the command to do that is Install‑Module InboxAccountingDatabaseManagement.

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So here we are back on our VPN server,

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and we are in the Remote Access Management Console.

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It's important to understand that reporting is only available

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to you in this modern management console.

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We can't do any reporting in the legacy or older Routing

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and Remote Access Management Console.

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So here, if you go to the Remote Client Status,

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you see we have our current connections like we saw previously,

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but if we go to the Reporting tab,

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you'll notice that there is no reports here for us to generate,

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and it just says Inbox accounting must be

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configured before reporting can be used.

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So there is a couple of different ways to do this,

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the first is through the UI, so if you click on the Configure Accounting link,

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it brings up this little wizard or menu here and you'll want to

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select Use inbox accounting, and then here,

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the storage accounting for the logs, this is the data retention period.

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I usually leave this set to the default of 12 months,

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but you can change it to anything you like as well.

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So once that's done, you can click Apply.

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Now,

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I'm not going to do that here because I want to

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demonstrate the PowerShell method.

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So to install accounting using PowerShell,

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we'll open an elevated PowerShell command window,

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and the command that we'll execute is Set‑RemoteAccessAccounting,

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and we'll use the switch EnableAccountingType,

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and we'll specify Inbox as the type.

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And then I'll also add PassThru so that we can see that information.

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And once that's done,

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we'll have to close out of the Remote Access Management Console and reopen it.

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And if we go to the Reporting tab,

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you should now see that we have the ability to generate reports.

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Now here is the challenge.

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Of course, there is no data in this database, I literally just installed it.

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So what I'm going to do a little bit later is actually import a database that has some data so that we can run some reports.