Run an SharePoint Alerts assessment

Running the SharePoint Alerts assessment is just like running any other adoption or deprecation module of the Microsoft 365 Assessment tool: you use the CLI with the Start action to launch an assessment. By specifying the --mode to be Alerts the Microsoft 365 Assessment tool will run the SharePoint Alerts assessment for you. This page provides you with a quick start and links to the relevant Microsoft 365 Assessment tool documentation for more details.

Quick start

Download the Microsoft 365 Assessment tool

The Microsoft 365 Assessment tool must first be downloaded from https://github.com/pnp/pnpassessment/releases. More details can be found in the download documentation.

Ensure you've an Entra application setup

The Microsoft 365 Assessment tool requires an Entra application for authenticating to SharePoint. More details in the authentication documentation.

Important

It's essential you grant the needed permission as listed in permissions, without these correct permission scopes the Alerts module will not work.

Start assessment

Below are some quick start samples that show how to run a SharePoint Alerts assessment. More details on the Start action can be found in the Microsoft 365 Assessment tool Start documentation.

Task	CLI
Start a new SharePoint Alerts assessment (application permissions) for a complete tenant	microsoft365-assessment.exe start --mode Alerts --authmode application --tenant bertonline.sharepoint.com --applicationid c545f9ce-1c11-440b-812b-0b35217d9e83 --certpath "My|CurrentUser|b133d1cb4d19ce539986c7ac67de005481084c84"
Start a new SharePoint Alerts assessment (delegated permissions) for a set of site collections	microsoft365-assessment.exe start --mode Alerts --authmode interactive --tenant bertonline.sharepoint.com --applicationid c545f9ce-1c11-440b-812b-0b35217d9e83 --siteslist "https://bertonline.sharepoint.com/sites/ussales,https://bertonline.sharepoint.com/sites/europesales"

Live status updates

Once an assessment is launched you'd typically followup on it's status via the Status action. Below is a quick start, more details can be found in the Microsoft 365 Assessment tool operations documentation.

Task	CLI
Realtime status update of the running assessments	microsoft365-assessment.exe status

Generate report

When an assessment has finished you can continue with the next step and that's generating the Power BI report by using the Report action. Below is a quick start, more details can be found in the Microsoft 365 Assessment tool Report documentation.

Note

The value for the id parameter is the id of your assessment. You can get this by running the list command.

Task	CLI
Generate Power BI report (includes CSV export) in the default location	microsoft365-assessment.exe report --id 22989c75-f08f-4af9-8857-6f19e333d6d3
Export the gathered data as CSV files in a custom location	microsoft365-assessment.exe report --id 22989c75-f08f-4af9-8857-6f19e333d6d3 --mode CsvOnly --path "c:\reports"

To better understand the generated Power BI report and accompanying CSV files use the nodes in the left navigation.