OneNote Statistics

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OneNote Statistics

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As an admin, I'm trying to pull together some statistics regarding usage, number of users and any other data that can be presented to the district showing OneNote's adoption.

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Another place that may provide better answers is the business version of this site:

You may want to ask this question in the “Office 365 for Business” Forum / Community

There is a “hidden”, aka separate, location to find out Office 365 for Business specific information and to ask questions:**Office 365 for business community**http://community.office365.com/en-us/default.aspx

You could also try joining MS’s “Yammer” account: https://www.yammer.com/itpronetwork/#/threads/company?type=general There are a couple of “networks” where you may be able to get an answer, ie “Office 365 IT Pro” or “fasttrack deployment”.

Are you using Office 365? If you are, then you can use the telemetry feature in the Admin portal to collect that sort of information.

Here are a few older links. There have been many improvements, "enhancements" since these articles

Telemetry - Office 2013 for IT pros – Technet Home Page

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/office

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj863580.aspx - Overview of Office Telemetry

New Office telemetry poster and compatibility guide in the Office 2013 Resource Kit We’ve published a new Visio poster and article about compatibility and telemetry in Office 2013. Office 2013 Resource Kit Find information in the Office Resource Kit about new features and changes in deployment strategies for Office 2013. Quickly set up Office Telemetry Dashboard on a workgroup or domain-joined computer Learn how to use a Windows PowerShell script to quickly set up Telemetry Dashboard on a single computer. The new Office Preview launch: Feature demo PJ Hough, Microsoft Corporate VP, walks you through the key scenarios demonstrated at the new Office preview launch. What you should know about Office Web Apps Server Office Web Apps Server Preview is a new Office server product that delivers browser-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote.

Resources for the new Office · System requirements for Office 2013 · Overview of Office 365 ProPlus · Volume activation of Office 2013 · Click-to-Run overview · Deploy Office Telemetry Dashboard · Security overview

video - Using Office 2013 Telemetry to create Addin Policy

http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/videos/video-use-office-anywhere-with-office-on-demand-VA103984836.aspx

2014 07 00 Office Telemetry reports on Office 2013 docs and apps

http://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com/tip/Office-Telemetry-reports-on-Office-2013-docs-and-apps

If IT administrators need information on document and application usage, they can use Office Telemetry, an Office 2013 feature that gathers such data.

Office Telemetry supports Office 2003 through 2013 and replaces three Office 2010 tools: Office Code Compatibility Inspector, Office Migration Planning Manager and Office Environment Assessment Tool. The new Telemetry program collects information such as file names, usernames, computer names, computer architectures, dates and times, user counts and Office versions. The Office 2013 Telemetry feature also collects data such as success rates, load times and compatibility.

The system monitors a wide range of Office applications, including not only the full complement of standard Office documents and templates -- binary files such as .doc and .ppt; OpenXML files such as .docx and .xlsx, and macro-enabled files such as .dotm and .xltm -- but also Office files that contain ActiveX controls and External Data Connections.

In addition, Office Telemetry can monitor a wide range of add-ins, including such types as COM, Excel XLL and Word WLL. Plus, it supports Office apps hosted within client applications.

Office Telemetry features a number of components that collect and process data, stores that data in a central database, and makes the data accessible for viewing and reporting. Figure 1 provides an overview of the components in Office Telemetry and how they fit together to gather and present usage information.

Figure 1. The Office Telemetry platform is made up of numerous components.

On each client workstation configured with Office, a Telemetry Agent collects usage and inventory data and periodically uploads that data to a dedicated shared folder. The agent is built into Office 2013, but it must be deployed separately on systems running Office 2003 through 2010. Regardless of how the agent is deployed, it must be specifically enabled through Group Policy or the registry.

Once the Telemetry data has been collected into the database, IT administrators can use the Telemetry Dashboard to view that data. The dashboard is a workbook tool built into Excel 2013.

To use the Dashboard, you need only connect to the Telemetry database. You can then explore and analyze the Telemetry data through a variety of views that let you look at summaries of information as well as specific details.

The Dashboard is divided into six main worksheets that provide access to the various types of information available through Office Telemetry:

· Overview: Provides a bird’s-eye view of the usage and stability of the Office documents and products in an organization, offering insight into how they are behaving on participating client computers.

· Documents: Displays details about the Office documents being used on each client device such as the total number of users, the Office versions being used, the percentage of successfully opened documents, the number of times a document has been opened and the number of unique critical issues.

· Solutions: Displays details about the Office add-ins and apps being used on each client computer, providing many of the same details that are available on the Documents worksheet.

· Telemetry Processor: Provides information about the health of the Office Telemetry infrastructure, such as whether the telemetry processors are running correctly or the client computers are sending data correctly.

· Deployments: Offers a tabular view of the number of Office clients being monitored, with details about Office versions and system architectures (such as 32-bit vs. 64-bit).

· Custom Reports: Lets admins create custom reports based on data in the Telemetry database.

Most of these worksheets provide links to additional worksheets that let you drill deeper into Office 2013 Telemetry data. For example, Figure 2 shows the Documents worksheet, which describes a variety of Office-related documents. (The screenshot is taken from the “Telemetry Dashboard worksheet reference,” where Microsoft has posted extensive information about each Dashboard worksheet.)

Figure 2. You can view details about Office documents in the Telemetry Dashboard.

The Document worksheet provides a variety of information about frequently used Office documents. You can use the Query function to narrow a search down to specific documents. You can also click the plus arrows near the top of the worksheet to see more details about a particular category, such as “Office usage.”

In addition, you can click specific links to open additional worksheets that have more granular details. For example, if you click a number in the “Total users**”** column, a worksheet will open and display a list of users who have accessed the associated document.

The Dashboard also lets endpoint administrators protect user privacy by providing mechanisms for setting thresholds, obfuscating document information or excluding applications. Admins can also manage add-ins through the Dashboard to control their use based on factors such as load times or detected issues.

· Office 2013 includes enterprise security features such as digital signatures

· FAQ: Finding and fixing Office 2013 installation glitches

· Look out for gotchas when deploying Microsoft Office 2013

· Why Office 2013 still beats productivity suite alternatives

· Using System Center Configuration Manager or Group Policy to install Office 2013

· User number, devices should determine Office 2013 edition and license

3 Ways to Connect to the Office 365 Reporting Service From Excel

Looking for ways to connect to the Office 365 reporting service via Microsoft Excel? Russell Smith serves up three suggested access methods in this handy how-guide.

2016 03 04- Rollout of New Admin Center / Admin Portal

https://blogs.office.com/2016/03/04/announcing-the-new-office-365-admin-center/

The new admin center makes it faster, easier and more efficient to manage Office 365. (Take a look at the Office 365 Roadmap to see a list of past and future features.) As the service evolves, we wanted to make it easier for you to find common tasks and scenarios.

Office 365 Business Admin Portal: / Office 365 Admin Centerhttps://portal.microsoftonline.com/****

<snip>

Things you should know before you start:

· As the first person in your organization who creates the account, you will be the Office 365 administrator.

· After you add your users, they can install the latest version of Office.

· Important: For Office 365 Small Business Premium, the admin should enter all product keys during the setup process. Learn More

</snip>

2016 03 07- New Admin Center Begins Rolling Out For Office 365

https://www.petri.com/new-admin-center-begins-rolling-office-365

tarting with the new dashboard; IT admins can now do and see more without needing to click around. From a single customizable page, everything from billing, reports, messages, tutorials, service status, users, and more are shown at a glance: a search bar sits at the top of the dashboard which can be used to find groups or users.

The new Admin Center can generate reports to show how and when users are taking advantage of the different aspects of Office 365. These reports are currently limited but will soon be able to display how users are accessing OneDrive, SharePoint, Yammer, Skype for Business, and more. With this data, IT staff can plan training sessions or make tweaks to their long term goals.

Even though this new Admin Center is not complete, it is built to help IT administrators get their jobs done faster. Microsoft says this new experience is rolling out over the next few weeks but you can get the new experience now by going here. If there are things you do not like, then send Microsoft feedback and let them know.

2015 11 06- New Featues in Admin portal (7min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVZolY7VIEA&feature=em-subs_digest-g

Office 365 Administration / Office 365 Administration Center / Office 365 Portal

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819272.aspx

This page summarized methods of administering Office 365

MS Virtual Academy - For IT Pros - 365 Admin Training

https://mva.microsoft.com/product-training/office-365

There are 62 courses on this sub site of MSVA, many of them about Administering Office 365

PowerShell

As well, you can look into PowerShell. It can be used to generate reports on Office 365 usage, and to generally manage Office 365 licenses. Here are a couple of examples:

**OFFICE-** **Create Office 365 Reports** ****

Getting The Most Out Of Office 365 At Work – Introduction

This page has a bunch of PS tips for on managing 365 (non relevant to your current question) https://www.petri.com/tag/getting-the-most-out-of-office-365

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Hi David,

Since you are trying to collate data on the usage of OneNote amongst different users, it would be better if you post your query in the following forum.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-us/home?category=officeitpro

Thank you

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