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Thanks Jon, do we know why reports reader doesn't have access when it gives ... ''Reports reader Assign the Reports reader role to users who need to do the following:'' - View usage data and the activity reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center - Get access to the Power BI adoption content pack - Get access to sign-in reports and activity in Azure AD - View data returned by Microsoft Graph reporting API per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/add-users/about-admin-roles?view=o365-worldwide
To clarify, the Power BI adoption pack and the admin centre reporting will be more aligned in the future I imagine? When I last tried to compare data across both the results were inconsistent. Also is there best practice or any guidelines for how to remove licences which fall into specific categories from adoption numbers? For e.g my outlook adoption may say 30% but I know it's more like 70% - a lot of licences it's using to calculate the adoption % may be ?(I don't know!)? generic licences for things like group email accounts etc? Just trying to understand why the data can be so wrong at present and how to clean it up...
- James_Bell
Microsoft
Hi Tracey, we're making improvements to both Usage Reporting and Usage Analytics with Power BI that we'll announce soon via the Microsoft 365 public roadmap. We clarify how usage is calculated per report through our documentation - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/activity-reports/activity-reports?view=o365-worldwide - if you have specific instances of data discrepancy today between activity reports and power BI, please reach out to me directly and i can follow up.- Thanks James & Jon! 🙂 Great to have an opportunity to ask questions.
- For the first part of your question (why does the report reader not have access) -- I was referring to Message Center; sounds like you may be asking about adoption reports and the PowerBI adoption pack. Some customers have said that they have different people who need to access Message Center vs adoption and usage reports, so that's why the required admin roles don't line up 1 to 1. For the second part, about the discrepancy between the PowerBI adoption pack and admin center web reports; I'm going to ask some other people with expertise in that area to help out.
