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Create custom user filter in the admin portal with powershell?
Is there a way to create an advanced custom user filter for the Office 365 admin portal, perhaps with powershell? The filtering possibilities in the GUI are to limited and some admins prefer GUI over powershell for day to day tasks.
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- We have a few organizations that are using Cogmotive to generate and schedule reports as the current reports and/or filters are not good enough although they are getting better. In case you would need direct filtering this tools is not the right one for you.
Hi all, please share any feedback that you have around additional filter requirements by using the feedback button in the admin center. We continue to evolve the current functionality and your feedback helps us to define our roadmap.
Thanks,
Anne
We would also like more features on this, especially the ability to create filters on security/roles
Hi Magnus, have you tried to create a custom filter on the active user page in the new admin center? You can also create a fitler to filter by domains. Would that help with your scenario?
Thanks,
Anne
Anne Michels I have made a custom filter for domains, but it does not return what I need. Some admins unfortunately don't use powershell, so I would prefer the posibility to create a real custom filter, with powershell, on attributes of my choosing, and then make that filter available in the portal.
Hi Magnus,
can you please specify what you expected the filter to return and what it did return for you? Then, our engineering team can look into this as there might be a bug if this is not working as expected.
@all: if you have further feedback on the custom filter capabilities please let me know. what are filter options you'd really like to be added?
I'll then consolidate all your feedback to share it with the engineering team.
Thanks,
Anne
To create the custom filter, simply click on "filters" and then "add custom filter"
A problem with the custom fitlers is that they are very limited in functionality. For example, we can' t create a filter to show all of the people that have a Sway license nor can we create a filter to show all of the SharePoint service admins.
- VasilMichev The need arose when I tried filtering on domain. That filter seems to filter on mail attribute, not UPN suffix.
Just curious, what kind of filter are you looking for? The portal will never give you as much flexibility as PowerShell does, that's for sure.
Anne Michels do you any thoughts about this?
