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TLBGT
Copper Contributor
Dec 10, 2020

Management and Reporting Tools Suggestions

 

After years of doing dev, I've been doing work on the admin side of things for about a year now. Almost weekly on this site, I see where someone needs to write some PS in order to pull out the information they needed.

 

For example, I wanted to see all the properties associated with each user account.

 

Bulk operations then download users seemed like an obvious answer. But the resulting file only has a few of the properties. To get the properties I wanted to see, I (to no one's great shock) needed to write and run a PS script.

 

This seems a bit nuts to me. Can anyone recommend some tools that can be used instead?

  • There are plenty of third-party reporting solutions for O365, look them up online. There are also few players on the management front, but that mostly appeals to multi-tenant conglomerates or CSPs.

    • TLBGT's avatar
      TLBGT
      Copper Contributor

      VasilMichev 

      Of course I can look online, but I what I was hoping for were recommendations from those in the trenches. Thanks though for responding.

      • If everyone starts recommending products, it quickly turns into a spam fest. We've already had few vendors trying to plug in their products on every thread, such behavior hardly helps anyone. Moreover, you should be evaluating the products based on your specific needs, not marketing shills, so it's best you do the search yourself.

         

        My company has such products for example, yet I dont think bluntly mentioning them in each such discussion will benefit you, or us for that matter. If you are only interested in some basic reporting, there are also free scripts/tools available that might do the job for you. 

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    DavidWorner
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