How to generate a report on user activity in Teams in Microsoft 365

Microsoft Teams is a widely used collaborative chat-workspace that allows you to organize the conversations in your organizations and share information through secure channels. You can view the details on its usage from the Teams admin center. The steps mentioned below can be used to generate a report on the activities that take place in your Teams environment. ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, an extensive tool used for reporting, managing, monitoring, auditing, and creating alerts for critical activities in your Microsoft 365 environments, can also be used for this purpose.

The following table is a comparison on how to generate a report on user activity in Teams using the native admin center and M365 Manager Plus.

Limitations of using Microsoft 365 native tools

• Administrators must be assigned the required role to access individual native admin centers and carry out tasks in them.
• Assigning granular permissions to execute individual tasks in a broad category is not possible.
• Generating reports and conducting management tasks on services in Microsoft 365 have to be carried out in their respective admin centers, which can be exhausting and time-consuming.

Benefits of using M365 Manager Plus:

• Manage Entra ID (previously Azure AD) mailboxes, users, groups, and contacts effortlessly in bulk.
• Gain a thorough understanding of your Exchange Online, Entra ID, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and other Microsoft 365 services with detailed reports.
• Keep tabs on even the most granular user activities in your Microsoft 365 environment.
• Monitor the health and performance of Microsoft 365 features and endpoints around the clock.
• Create custom roles with any combination of reporting, management, and auditing tasks and assign them to non-administrative users to reduce the workload of Microsoft 365 admins.