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Office 365 Reports -Timezone
Can someone tell me which timezone the usage reports are in? The number of staff using Outlook at 1am is too large for me to be comfortable that they are in the timezone of the tenancy.
Thanks
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I'm having the same problem. I need to monitor and report on weekend usage but can't figure out how to change it from UCT to AEST (link mentioned above no longer goes anywhere).
Have you correctly set the Group timezone? It defaults to Pacific Time.
Could this be the reason?
Just an idea...
Group timezone? Perhaps I'm being dense this morning, but not sure what group you are referring to.
Every site has a time zone which defaults to Pacific Time. Every time you create a site (or a Group), you should adjust such time zone to the correct one (if different from the default).
You can do it either by PowerShell or by using the relevant site page (e.g. https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename/_layouts/15/regionalsetng.aspx).
If you don't, you will get wrong times for the document library items, among the other things.
Almost surely this has nothing to do with your problem, but you could investigate about it...
Usage Report > Email Activity uses UTC timezone on its Last Activity Date.
Adding here Anne Michels
Hello Lloyd Adams,
I doubt it may be based on the timezone set in the mailbox. Can you check the timezone of the mailboxes which were reporting that the login occurred around 1 AM?
I have used Microsoft Usage Reporting API directly and didn't find any mismatch in the timezone so far. If you need to view the data based on your current timezone then you may need to directly access the API or use any 3rd party tool.
You can try the below tool which gives you the reporting based on your current timezone.
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Office-365-Auditing-Tool-01747cd4
Ok thanks for that. I'll take a look. To give the full picture, this is for the report that shows users still using RPC to connect to EoL.
