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Microsoft 365 admin center activity reports enables you to get an insight on how people in your business are using Microsoft 365 services. For instance, you can determine who is using the service to the max limit, and who is barely using it and hence might not need Microsoft 365 license. Perpetual license model won't be included in the reports.
Reports are available for the last 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, and 180 days. Data won't exist for all reporting periods right away. The reports typically become available within 48 hours, but might sometimes take several days to become available.
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How to get to the Reports dashboard
- In the admin center, go to Reports > Usage.
- In the admin center, go to Reports > Usage.
Select View more from the at-a-glance activity card for a service (such as email or OneDrive) to see the report detail page. On that page, different reports for the service are provided in tabs.
Who can see reports
People who have the following permissions can see the reports:
Global admins: We recommend that only a few people in your company have this role. It reduces the risk to your business.
Exchange admins
SharePoint admins
Skype for Business admins
Global reader (with no user details)
Usage Summary Reports reader (with no user details): By design, this role has read access to user, groups, and other settings by default in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as the role is based on Microsoft Entra.
Reports reader
Teams Administrator
Teams Communications Administrator
User Experience Success Manager (with no user details)
For more information, see About admin roles and Assign admin roles.
Which activity reports are available in the admin center
Depending on your subscription, here are the available reports in all environments:
N/A1: The report is planned to be released in the future. The Microsoft 365 Roadmap will be updated before the release.
N/A2: The service isn't available in the environment; hence, there's no plan to release the report.
How to view licensing information
To see how many licenses you have assigned and unassigned, in the admin center, go to the Billing > Licenses page.
To see who is licensed, unlicensed, or guest, in the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
How to view usage information for a specific user
Use the service reports to research to what extent a specific user is using the service. For example, to find out how much mailbox storage a specific user has consumed, open the Mailbox usage report, and sort the users by name. If you have thousands of users, export the report to Excel so that you can filter through the list quickly.
You can't generate a report where you enter a user's account and then get a list of which services they're using and how much.
There are circumstances where new users show up as unknown. This is usually due to occasional delays in creating user profiles.
Show user, group, or site details in the reports
By default, user, group, or site details will be hidden for all reports.
Your user list will look like this:
If you want to unhide user, group, or site information when you're generating your reports, you can quickly make that change in the admin center.
Reports provide information about your organization's usage data. Starting September 1, 2021, we're hiding user, group, or site information by default for all reports as part of our ongoing commitment to help companies support their local privacy laws.
The org setting applies to:
| Property | Attributes |
|---|---|
| Properties for user-level in many reports | User IDs, Usernames, and User principal names |
| Properties for OneDrive and SharePoint site usage reports | Site IDs and Site URLs |
| Properties for Microsoft 365 apps Group activity report | Group IDs and Group names |
| Properties for Viva Engage group activity report | Group name and Group admin |
| Properties for Teams team usage report | Team names |
There are additional reports that follow this org setting. For example, some reports in Microsoft Teams admin center follow the same.
You can revert this change for their tenant and show identifiable user, group, and site information if their organization's privacy practices allow it. It can be achieved in the Microsoft 365 admin center by following these steps:
In the admin center, go to the Settings > Org Settings > Services page.
Select Reports.
Uncheck the statement Display concealed user, group, and site names in all reports, and then save your changes.
Starting June 23, 2022, an API will gradually become available to all environments for admins to change this setting without needing to visit the Microsoft 365 admin center.
For more information, see adminReportSettings API.
Two methods have been approved for this API:
The report will only contain a Privacy Setting property. For more information on Graph API, see Use the Microsoft Graph API. You can use the Software Development Kit (SDK) or directly call the API using any program language with network ability. We recommend using Graph Explorer.
It will take a few minutes for these changes to take effect on the reports in the Reports dashboard. This setting also applies to the Microsoft 365 usage reports in Microsoft Graph and Power BI and to the usage reports in Microsoft Teams Admin center. Showing identifiable user information is a logged event in the Microsoft Purview portal audit log.
What happens to usage data when a user account is deleted?
Whenever you delete a user's account, Microsoft will delete that user's usage data within 30 days. Deleted users will still be included in the activity chart totals for the periods they were active in but won't appear in the User Details table.
However, when you select a particular day, up to 28 days from the current date, the report shows the user's usage for that day in the User Details table.
How do I interpret the last activity date in user, group, or site details in the usage reports?
The last activity date in user, group, or site details represents the most recent date on which a user performed any intentional activity within the app, regardless of the selected time period of the past 7/30/90/180 days.
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