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Privacy changes and API support for Microsoft 365 usage reports – Rolling out starting June 23

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Jun 23, 2022
At Microsoft, we are committed to both data-driven insights and user privacy. As part of that commitment, we made a change in September 2021 to Microsoft 365 usage analytics to conceal user group and...
Updated Jun 23, 2022
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balder_lai
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Jan 26, 2023

Great privacy feature. Thanks. Is the concealed string that represent the user/group consistent across reports and could the the string be generated programmatically or using some API. That way one could avoid turning off "Display concealed user group and site names in all reports" on the tenant level. Additionally, one can process and store reports without compromising the user/group identity.