Alongside unified auditing Microsoft 365 admin center gives you option to perform advanced auditing. This option is available only for users with Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5 subscription. Advanced auditing feature provides some added advantages like long-term audit log retention and access to more crucial event logs. You can view the advanced audit logs under the Security and Compliance Center.
About M365 Manager Plus
M365 Manager Plus is a comprehensive Microsoft 365 reporting, managing, monitoring, auditing, and alerting tool. It offers auditing for Microsoft 365 services such as Exchange Online, Azure Active Directory, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, Power BI in the same platform. This tool provides individual audit report for every possible user activity. All these audit reports can be scheduled and exported to PDF, XLSX, CSV, or HTML format.
Why is auditing with M365 Manager Plus more beneficial?
Geolocation enabled audit reports: With these reports, you can look for changes performed by users along with their location. You can filter these reports location-wise and make management easy for regional admins.
Custom views and advanced filtering options: You can create audit reports with the type of view you prefer (like summarised views) and also choose the columns that must go into the report.
Business hours auditing: You can audit actions throughout the day and also get a separate set of report on the action performed within and outside the usual business hours. This will help you track the unusual activities performed outside business hours (if any) easily.
User-based and group-based auditing: With the advance filter options, you can filter the audits domain-wise and also pick out reports related to specific user or group in particular if would choose to.
Indefinite audit log storage: M365 Manager Plus allows you to store the audit logs for an indefinite period unlike in native tool with specific restrictions for storage period as per your subscription type.
Individual audit profiles for each activity: The main advantage of using this tool is that you can audit actions for most of the Microsoft 365 services and yet have distinct and comprehensive reports that track each activity accurately.
Create your own custom alerts: Using this feature, you can create your own alert profiles that help you get instant email notifications about the important changes made to your Microsoft 365 accounts.
Help-desk delegation: Achieve better role-based access control by delegating each technician a granular and unique role that holds just enough amount of rights and permissions as required.
Other advantages of using M365 Manager Plus
- 700+ pre-configured reports and unique custom reports.
- Geo-location enabled reports.
- Bulk users and mailbox management.
- Customizable templates to manage users, groups and contacts.
- Rules to auto-populate fields.
- Customizable naming formats and password policies for the templates.
- Automate management tasks.
- Create and delegate custom roles and virtual tenants.
- Assign help desk technicians without giving admin rights.
Click here to learn more about how M365 Manager Plus helps you audit and manage Microsoft 365 accounts easily and efficiently.
