You can easily see how people in your business are using Office 365 services. For example, you can identify who is using a service a lot and reaching quotas, or who may not need an Office 365 license at all.
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 become available within 48 hours.
Watch this video for an overview of how you can use the reports:
How to get to the Reports dashboard
- In the admin center, go to the Reports > Usage page.
- Select the View more button 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:
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Global admins: We recommend that only a few people in your company have this role. It reduces the risk to your business.
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Exchange admins
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SharePoint admins
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Skype for Business admins
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Global reader (with no user details)
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Usage Summary Reports reader (with no user details)
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Reports reader
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Teams Administrator
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Teams Communications Administrator
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User Experience Success Manager (with no user details)
To learn more, 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.
How to view licensing information
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To see how many licenses you have assigned and unassigned, in the admin center, go to the Billing > Licenses page.
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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 how much 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 you 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 are using and how much.
Hide user details in the reports
If you want to hide user level information when you're generating your reports, you can quickly make that change in the admin center.
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In the admin center, go to the Settings > Services & add-ins page.
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Select Reports.
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In the Reports pane, select the options you want, and then save your changes.
Your user list will look like this:
It'll take a few minutes for these changes to take effect on the reports in the reports dashboard. This setting also applies to the reports API.
What happens to usage data when a user account is closed?
Whenever you close a user's account, Microsoft will delete that user's usage data within 30 days. That user will still be included in the Activity chart totals for the periods she was active in, but will not appear in the User Details table.
However, when you select a particular day, up to 28 days from the current date, the report show the user's usage for that day in the User Details table.
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