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StefanFried
Steel Contributor
Oct 27, 2017

OneDrive UsageReports

few questions to the community:

 

1) Refresh Dates

i'm not sure if i'm the only one, but what is the reason why some of the Usage Reports  have not been refreshed since "days" ? 

for instance the OneDrive activity says:  Data as of: Monday, October 23, 2017 (UTC)  whereas the skype one was updated on the 26th of October

..any ideas ?

 

2) Details about the Reports

Is there ANY SOURCE where it is explained what details are shown in each of the reports ?

What counts as "last activity date" for onedrive ? 

 - an upload event ?

 - any activity  ?

OR
 -only one of the 5 events which are available as columns in the report ?

I do a lot of upload/downloads to OfB, but these events are not really reflected in the reports.

I even have the feeling that they are counted within the Sharepoint Activity report...

 

i remember that the Last activity date column in the O365 groups activity reports is only based on the Exchange activity and not overall (just to mention one example of inconsistency here) 

 

so i appreciate any source where all details concerning the reports are listed  (what is the source for each of the columns)

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    • StefanFried's avatar
      StefanFried
      Steel Contributor
      Oct 27, 2017

      thanks vasil

       

      so would an upload/download via Web UI also count in here:
      --> "Files viewed or edited is the number of files that the user uploaded, downloaded, modified, or viewed. "

      i would say "yes"..but i'm not sure :)

       

      if yes, why do i see no activity in my report although i upload/download hundreds of files ? :)

       

    • StefanFried's avatar
      StefanFried
      Steel Contributor
      Oct 30, 2017

      i'm not sure if this happens only in my tenant, but if i perform Rest API calls against OneDrive (uploading/downloading a file in an automatic way) then i don't see this activity in the OneDrive Usage report at all :(((

       

      i'm using Graph API here:

      https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/api-reference/v1.0/resources/onedrive

       

      i've checked the SPO Activity Report too (just to be sure) but i don't see it there as as well

       

      any ideas whats wrong here ?

    • Jaroslav Karlik's avatar
      Jaroslav Karlik
      Brass Contributor
      May 20, 2018

      Hi Vasil, 

      Is there a way to get to these data from OneDrive Usage Report programaticaly? I mean thru Office Graph API or so? Its great its in admin center and your article perfectly explains everything but I would need to go to that section, export and than model data and so on... with data feed I can connect into some of custom powerBI reports we he build around OneDrive adoption. 

       

      ps: I know about out of box O365 Adoption Dashboard but we use custom reports to drive and monitor adoption. 

       

      thanks

      JK

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