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Microsoft Teams device usage report

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    Microsoft Teams

The Teams device usage report in the Microsoft Teams admin center provides you with information about how users connect to Teams. You can use the report to see the devices that are used across your organization, including how many use Teams from their mobile devices when on-the-go.

View the device usage report

You must be either a global admin, global reader, or Teams service admin to view reports in Teams admin center. See Use Teams administrator roles to manage Teams to read about getting admin roles and permissions.

  1. In the left navigation of the Microsoft Teams admin center, click Analytics & reports > Usage reports. On the View reports tab, under Report, select Teams device usage.

  2. Under Date range, select a range, and then click Run report.

    Screenshot of the Teams device usage report in the Teams admin center with callouts.

Interpret the report

Callout Description
1 The Teams device usage report can be viewed for trends over the last 7, 30, 90, and 180 days.
2 Each report has a date for when the report was generated. The reports usually reflect a 24-48 hour latency from the time of activity.
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  • The X axis on the chart represents the different devices (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android Phone, Web) used to connect to Teams.
  • The Y axis is the number of users using the device over the selected time period.
Hover over the bar representing a device to see the number of users using the device to connect to Teams.
4 The table gives you a breakdown of device usage by user.
  • User name is the display name of the user. You can click the display name to go to the user's setting page in the Microsoft Teams admin center.
  • Windows is selected if the user was active in the Teams desktop client on a Windows-based computer.
  • Mac is selected if the user was active in the Teams desktop client on a macOS computer.
  • Linux is selected if the user was active in the Teams desktop client on a Linux computer.
  • iOS is selected if the user was active on the Teams mobile client for iOS.
  • Android phone is selected if the user was active on the Teams mobile client for Android.
  • Chrome OS is selected if the user was active in the Teams desktop client on a ChromeOS computer.
  • Web is selected if the user was active on the Teams web client.
  • Last activity is the last date (UTC) that the user participated in a Teams activity.
Note that if a user account no longer exists in Azure AD, the user name is displayed as "--" in the table.

To see the information that you want in the table, make sure to add the columns to the table.
5 Select Edit columns to add or remove columns in the table.
6 Export the report to a CSV file for offline analysis. Select the Export to Excel icon and the report will be downloaded within your browser.
7 Time series data represented in the top graph show different usage metrics aggregated for the entire tenant
8 Tabular data represented in the botton half shows different usage metrics aggregated per user

Make the user specific data anonymous

To make the data in Teams user activity report anonymous, you have to be a global administrator. The global administrator can hide identifiable information (using MD5 hashes) such as display name, group name, email, and AAD ID in the report and its export.

  1. In Microsoft 365 admin center, go to the Settings > Org Settings, and under Services tab, choose Reports.

  2. Select Reports, and then choose Display concealed user, group, and site names in all reports. This setting gets applied both to the usage reports in Microsoft 365 admin center as well as Teams admin center.

  3. Select Save changes.

Note

Enabling this setting will de-identify user, group and site name information in the Teams user activity report, Teams device usage report, and Teams usage report. Starting September 1, 2021, this setting is enabled by default for everyone as part of our ongoing commitment to help protect important information and enable companies to support their local privacy laws.

This setting also applies to Microsoft 365 usage reports in Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Graph, and Power BI.