Small Tricks and Tips – Microsoft 365 administration – Updating usage report settings – how to show / display concealed user, group, and site names in all reports – showing details in usage reports in readable format using Microsoft GRAPH APIs

Hi All,

Greetings for the day!!!

Background / Details

• Since last couple of articles we are discussing Microsoft 365 usage reports
  • Small Tricks and Tips – Microsoft 365 administration- Usage reports – How to navigate – https://knowledge-junction.in/2023/04/06/small-tricks-and-tips-microsoft-365-administration-usage-reports-how-to-navigate/
  • Small Tricks and Tips – Microsoft 365 administration- Usage reports – https://knowledge-junction.in/2023/04/06/small-tricks-and-tips-microsoft-365-administration-usage-reports/
  • Small Tricks and Tips – Microsoft 365 administration – Usage reports – how to show / display concealed user, group, and site names in all reports – showing details in usage reports in readable format – https://knowledge-junction.in/2023/04/07/small-tricks-and-tips-microsoft-365-administration-usage-reports-how-to-show-display-concealed-user-group-and-site-names-in-all-reports-showing-details-in-usage-reports-in/
• We discussed about how to change settings for – how to show / display concealed user, group, and site names in all reports
• In this article we will discuss how to change admin setting for – how to show / display concealed user, group, and site names in all reports using Microsoft GRAPH APIs

Scenario for using Graph APIs for getting and updating Microsoft 365 usage reports

• To quickly verify the setting. For example you no need to login to Microsoft 365 admin center and navigate to “Report” settings
• Easiest way is to navigate to Graph Explorer and use graph API – https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/admin/reportSettings
• Sometime we dont have Global administrator available. So Global Administrator can assign role in Azure AD admin center to other users to read the setting for some time as

• How to assign roles to users – I’ll cover in seperate article
• So here, “Reports Reader” role is assigned to user – “knowledgejunction@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com” user
• Now we no more require to have “Global Administrator” role

Steps to view settings – display concealed user, group, and site names for Microsoft 365 usage reports

• Navigate to – Graph Explorer – https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer with “Global Admin” role or “Reports Reader” role

• Graph Explorer – https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer

• As we login to Graph Explorer successfully, to view the usage reports setting we will use the URL – https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/admin/reportSettings with “GET” method

Steps to Update settings – display concealed user, group, and site names for Microsoft 365 usage reports

• Navigate to – Graph Explorer – https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer with “Global Admin” role
• As we login to Graph Explorer successfully, to update the usage reports setting we will use the URL – https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/admin/reportSettings with “PATCH” method

• After updating settings using Graph Explorer lets verify from Microsoft 365 admin center

REFERENCES

• Graph Explorer – https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer

Thanks for reading !!! HAVE A FANTASTIC LEARNING AHEAD!!!